The economic crisis in recent years has brought significant challenges in almost all business and shown that exogenous factors act as catalysts in markets. As a consequence of such a result, there is a need to highlight the importance of implementing models for analyzing potential future...

Never in the past 30 years has productivity growth been lower than since the 2008 global financial crisis, and never has income inequality been higher than it is today in Japan, and in the OECD area. The two challenges have some common origins, including a widening productivity and wage gap...

Introduction -- R&D Project Failure and Principal Investigators -- Part I : Contextual Setting -- Publicly Funded Collaborative R&D: The Case of the US Department of Energy -- Legislative History of The SBIR Program -- A Theoretical Model of R&D Project Success or Failure -- Department of Energy...