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Institutional and Methodological Challenges in the Use of Experimental Method for the Evaluation of Business Incubators: Lessons from the US, EU and China
Nijkamp, Peter; Yu, Junbo - 2009
Despite their worldwide adoption by policy makers as the Holy Grail for entrepreneurship and business development, the effectiveness of business incubation programs remain elusive, primarily plagued by untenable evaluation methods. This paper develops an in-depth analysis on those methodological...
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Deutschland dezentral - Potenziale, Probleme, politische Perspektiven
Fricke, Holger - 2008
Dezentrale, wettbewerblich organisierte föderale Ordnungen, bei denen zentrale Kompetenzen auf niedrigen institutionellen Ebenen liegen und in denen Gebietskörperschaften eine vergleichsweise geringe Größe aufweisen, sind mit beträchtlichen Vorteilen verbunden. So ist es besser möglich,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009433708
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Tax in a Changing World: The Transfer Pricing of Intangible Assets
Markham, Michelle A. - 2005
tangible assets while turning to intangible assets to enhance their standing in a world increasingly focused on technological … surrounding the taxation of such assets in a changing world. Certain measures taken by the US and Australian revenue authorities …, countries at the forefront of this rapidly evolving area of taxation law, along with views expressed in the OECD's Transfer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437611
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In High Gear: A Case Study of the Hees-Edper Corporate Group
Strangeland, David; Daniels, Ronald J.; Morck, Randall - 1995
This study compares firms in the Hees-Edper Group with a number of other independent firms of similar size and in the same industries over a four-year period from 1988 to 1992, just prior to the first release of news that the Hees-Edper group was in financial trouble. During that period,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438865
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Electricity Restructuring: The Ontario Experience
Daniels, Ronald; Trebilcock, Michael - 2000
Over the last decade or so, a number of jurisdictions throughout the developed and developing world have embarked upon …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438866
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Private Provision of Public Infrastructure: An Organizational Analysis of the Next Privatization Frontier
Daniels, Ronald; Trebilcock, Michael - 1996
Constrained by severe, ongoing fiscal pressures and sensitive to concerns over bureaucratic inefficiency, policy-makers in a number of countries are re-evaluating both the goals and instruments of the modern state. In doing so, some have endorsed the need for government 'reinvention,' a term...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438974
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Breaking the Logjam: Proposals for Moving Beyond the Equals Approach
Daniels, Ronald J. - 1993
Over the last decade, the structure and performance of Canadian financial institutions has undergone a profound transformation. Propelled by both regulatory changes and market innovations, Canadian financial institutions have found their historically protected markets opened to intense...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439000
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Probabilistic Performance Forecasting for Unconventional Reservoirs With Stretched-Exponential Model
Valko, Peter P. (contributor) - 2011
Reserves estimation in an unconventional-reservoir setting is a daunting task because of geologic uncertainty and complex flow patterns evolving in a long-stimulated horizontal well, among other variables. To tackle this complex problem, we present a reserves-evaluation workflow that couples the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009465136
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Engineering a Principle: 'End-to-End' in the Design of the Internet
Gillespie, Tarleton - 2006
The term 'end-to-end' has become a familiar characterization of the architecture of the Internet, not only in engineering discourse, but in contexts as varied as political manifestos, commercial promotions, and legal arguments. Its ubiquity and opacity cloaks the complexity of the technology it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466144
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Attributes Affecting Consumer Choice
Hornsby, Gilpatrick D - 2011
resistance from the food industry due to the cost that would be associated with complying with the law. It was estimated to cost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468008