Penoles began operations in 1887 as a mining company. It currently controls more than 20 active companies involved in exploration, mining, foundation and refining of precious metals and industrial and developing inorganic chemical product which integrates different companies involved in the...

The objective of this paper was to determine and analyze the main competitive performance indicators of the pulp producing agro-industries of the local tropical fruits’ agricluster of the Metropolitan Region of Belém and Northeast of Pará. The competitive performance was evaluated by using...

The objective of this paper was to construct a competitive per-formance index (CPI) for the fruit’s pulp ï¬rms of State of Pará. A factor analysis and multiple regression models were used to estimate the CPI. Out the 27 ï¬rms analyzed, the results showed that only one ï¬rm presen-ted a...

The objective of this report is to publish a monthly forecasting tool of the U.S. dairy industry. This model forecasts the milk supply as well as the supply and demand for American cheese, Other cheese, butter, nonfat dry milk, and dry whey. Trade is presently exogenous to the model, but can be...

Subject of numerous recent debates among economist researchers, complexity economics takes a whole new approach regarding economics, namely a holistic one. Although the phrase ‘complexity economics’ is recent, the holistic approach is however not a new subject, the ideas referring to...

Capturing and understanding innovation dynamics is a continuous challenge due to the difficulty of collecting process data and because it often involves multiple levels and units of analysis. Interest has been increasingly focused on applying complexity theory in explaining temporal and...