Accelerated globalization has shown a new significant dimension of intermediate goods cross border flows, led mainly by multinational companies searching competitiveness gains through international fragmentation of production and delocalization on international value-added chains. The related...

Optimizarea unei zone monetare, în sensul unei funcţionări viabile pe termen lung, se fundamentează pe capacitatea acesteia de a gestiona şocurile asimetrice care tind să se propage în interior. Un şoc macroeconomic comun propagat în cadrul tuturor subsistemelor poate fi asimetric în...

Urban systems are becoming increasingly complex as urban economies, social and political structures and norms, infrastructure systems and technologies evolve. Therefore, the development of operational urban simulation models is required in order to achieve an improvement of the quality of...

By this paper we intend to analyze the existing gap in the efficiency of R&D investment, at European level. The method employed in this respect is Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The evaluation of the performance in R&D in European countries, in terms of technical efficiency (TE) thus...

Prezenta lucrare abordează un segment al problematicii complexe cu privire la procesul de luare a deciziilor. Odată cu dezvoltarea tehnologiilor informațioanle s-au dezvoltat și implementat sistemele suport de decizie (DSS) care au devenit din ce în ce mai performante și au fost...

Sustainable development implies the assumption of a new strategy at the microeconomic level. The paper presents several proposals to improve the substantiation and implementation of a strategy adequate to the new challenges of the sustainable development of society.

The fabrication of high performance materials using EPDM rubber and polyethylene mixtures with a low cost, nonpolluting and minimum investment technology is studied. These new materials can be used for obtaining a lot of goods for the economy, sport and private life..

This article presents the main instruments of the “management of innovation” from the Lisbon Strategy perspective. According to this Strategy until the year 2010 the economy of the European Union have to become the most dynamic and competitive one.

The concept of life cycle stages has a significant impact upon business strategy and performance.