Europe's small and medium-sized enterprises are the engine of the European economy and the main drivers for achieving sustainable growth and more and better jobs. At EU level, the European Commission has developed a comprehensive SME policy, which aims to ensure that Community policies and...

Technology transfer is an important instrument for promoting the economic growth and new jobs creation. Despite a high potential, the exploitation level of the research results is quite low in Europe. There are numerous barriers (structural, economic and legal) which affect the spin-out...

Small business is an important lever for solving a whole complex of political, economic and social problems, taking into consideration its effectiveness in society. It attracts population to promote economic reforms, it fulfils the market with goods and services, it creats new job places, it...

Precision agriculture has been practiced since the early 1990s, but the adoption rate of this technology has been slower than experts had predicted. This study explores the role of public- and private-sector financial assistance in the adoption of variable-rate fertilizer application. Public-...

This paper concentrates on universities strategies for admitting students and the rate at which private sector universities expand in today's higher educational setups. This paper answers the following question: to what extend are the public universities different from the private universities?...

Balanced Scorecard is a newly recognized concept applied in the public institutions system. The purpose of this paper is to bring forward a concise perspective over the experience of other countries regarding the implementation of this concept and, as a result, stating a conclusion about the...

This study examines the effect of work (number of working hours) on college students¡¯ satisfaction and GPA first by grouping the respondents into two categories: working and non-working. The findings show that the average satisfaction and GPA of those students who did not work were found to...

Most of the problems in Spanish public universities come from their complicated and inefficient governance system. This system is sometimes conceived as a simile of the political corps of a nation; sometimes it's conceived as an enterprise not regulated by offer-demand law. A drastic governance...

Technology affects in a different way social, scholar and economic levels, depending on economic and cultural situation: educational sector is a clear example, which features a continued evolution. Educational development leads many educators, centres and universities to admit the necessity of...