Japan's national policies for promoting high/new technologyparks remain unsuccessful. Cultural factors are found to be the cause ofunsuccessful science and technology policies, and recommendations forremediation are offered. In the early 1960s, Japanese economic growth caused population...

The principal argument examined is that entrepreneurs help to form innovative industrial clusters and spark regional competitive advantage. First, a model of the role of entrepreneurs in cluster formation is presented. An illustrative example of the model is then presented in the form of an...

Background -- Data and methods -- 2.1 Data -- 2.2 Methods to estimate the incidence of poverty -- 2.3 Methods to estimate other measures of poverty -- 2.4 Methods to estimate measures of inequality -- 2.5 Limitations of the analysis -- 2.6 Methods in global spatial regression analysis -- 2.7...

Accurate PV (Photovoltaic) power output forecasting is very important for making economic and reliable power dispatching plans. At present, the PV power prediction technology is still in the primary stage, especially for the forecasting cases with large forecasting time and when the weather...

Lubricant oils can autoxidize due to contact with air. This reaction is accelerated by heat and can be catalyzed with metal ion impurities. Therefore, new antioxidant additives are needed. Carbon nanomaterials exhibit excellent thermal oxidation resistance and can act as additives for lubricant...

Are the observed spatial distributions of firms decided mostly by market-mediated, economy-wide locational forces, or rather by non-pecuniary, sector-specific ones? This work finds that the latter kind of forces weight systematically more than the former in deciding firm location. The analysis...