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This Feasibility Study is designed to form the base strategy document detailing operational guidelines for a proposed Alliance between Ipswich City Council's Water & Sewerage Services, and Aquatec-Maxcon Pty Ltd. The proposed entity name of the Alliance is Sunshine Water (Pty Ltd). The Project...
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Abstract Under Vision 2020, a target was set in 1997 for trebling the forestry plantation area in Australia by the year 2020. Government subsidies and extension for plantation establishment have largely disappeared, hence forestry expansion is highly dependent on access to private finance....
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Social capital resources for the firm can be conceptualized as those executive-to-executive connections held by a firm’s top management team, as well as firm-to-firm relationships that exist fairly independently of particular individuals. This type of resource can compose an important portion...
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To conclude, if the political risk theoretically means anything, it means thinking about thefuture role of Nation-States, of culture, history and geography and market forces in theshaping of the international economic order. In considering the political risks in theirstrategies, MNCs as the...
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Hotel industry is characterized as one of the oldest, diverse, innovative, and important industries around the world. Given the low entry barriers for global markets, it is also highly attractive, and its greatest growth happens on international level. Hotel chains are the leaders in hotel...
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This thesis aims to identify and to close some gaps in the literature dealing with business strategies towards the creation, absorption and dissemination of new technologies. In doing so it comprises four theoretical papers. The following abstracts and Figure 1 briefly link each paper to one ore...
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Although the prospect of obtaining patent protection is believed to encourage R&D investments and thus the rate of … pressure on the returns to firms’ inventive activity. The analysis also incorporates the role of information spillovers and … selected industries. In particular, in industries such as biotechnology, drugs and chemicals patent protection significantly …
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that also accounts for benefit spillovers to consumers—which is possible analytically under some parametric conditions, and …
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significant in the case of more major innovations. We also find that the presence of R&D spillovers per se does not necessarily …
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and have higher patent application counts than individuals in established firms. Individuals' motives explain only a …
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