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Indicators used to measure the innovation process: defects and possible remedies
Dodgson, M; Hinze, S - 2000
databases, or consensual agreements reached through foresight exercises. There is an obvious need for greater integration of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447928
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The role of foresight in adaptive organising : coping with change and creating advantage.
Cobbledick, Michael - 2010
adaptation and foresight to, first, synthesise the essential characteristics of adaptive organising; and secondly, to determine … whether and how foresight can be applied to improve the effectiveness of organisational adaptation.A model of adaptive … of anticipatory foresight in fast-paced environments, a socially embedded foresight practice that links macroscopic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009479523
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Evolution and governance of the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry of China
Curtin University Sustainable Policy Institute (CUSP)
. After examining the definition of China’s biotechnology industry as well as its evolution, the authors of this paper employ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009434915
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Financial globalization and the shifting sands of contemporary financial markets
Das, Dilip K - 2010
The objective of this article is to examine the evolution of the global financial markets during the post-World War …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441817
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Entrepreneurship as a Point of Departure for a Course in Pluralist Economic Principles
Earl, Peter E.; Wakeley, Tim - 2005
Many commentators have pointed towards a downturn in the enrolment of students on economics degrees. Part of the explanation for this phenomenon is probably because business studies degrees meet students' requirements for practical understanding more closely. We suggest here that one of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447893
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A model of factors affecting an information system's change in state
Heales, J. - 2002
an information system is either in a stable state of evolution in which the information system's functionality is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447999
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Experimental evidence that partner choice is a driving force in the payoff distribution among cooperators or mutualists: the cleaner fish case
Bshary, R.; Grutter, A. S. - 2002
Supply and demand largely determine the price of goods on human markets. It has been proposed that in animals, similar forces influence the payoff distribution between trading partners in Sexual selection, intraspecific cooperation and interspecific mutualism. Here we present the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448002
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Punctuated equilibrium: Reconciling theory of revolutionary and incremental change
Wollin, Andrew - 1999
Using Simon's concept of nested hierarchies, this paper advances a new synthesis for understanding how and why the discontinuous change processes of punctuated equilibrium may occur in socio-economic settings. A. key concept is the nested, multilevel organization of 'deep structure', the order...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448283
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Estimating Phenotypic Correlations: Correcting for Bias Due to Intraindividual Variability
Adolph, Stephen C.; Hardin, J. S. - 2006
1 Correlations between phenotypic traits are important in a number of contexts in physiological ecology, evolutionary physiology, and behaviour. Correlations can reflect functional connections or trade-offs among performance traits (e.g. bite force, jumping distance) and can reveal causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468751
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Reading the Recent Monetary History of the United States, 1959-2007
Rubio-Ramirez, Juan F. - 2010
In this paper the authors report the results of the estimation of a rich dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model of the U.S. economy with both stochastic volatility and parameter drifting in the Taylor rule. They use the results of this estimation to examine the recent monetary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475410