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The paper discusses the impact of the Basel II Accord on the financing of small and medium size enterprises (SME) in Austria. Although the Basel II Accord has not been established yet, the study tries to evaluate the expected impact of the Basel II Accord on SMEs, on the bases of the current...
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the example of the BlackScholes option pricing formula, an innovation with a strong influence on the efficiency of …Innovations in the finance industry are an important tool to enhance profitability and to increase a nation's wealth … sector innovation theory in the last decades has taken a different approach. To understand innovation better researchers have …
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technological learning and the course of technological innovation. Industry’s recent performance and contemporary global … and paper industry between 1950 and 1990. Passage of the Celler-Kefauver Antimerger Act in 1950 marked the beginning of a … industry specific standards of competitive structure. The antitrust experience of the pulp and paper industry, and its distinct …
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globalization and market integration penetrate the Andes, they present both challenges and opportunities for farmers there. This …. Since 1998, Papa Andina has worked with partners in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru to stimulate pro-poor innovation within market …), researchers, and other service providers have engaged in innovation processes via two principal tools for facilitating collective …
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analytic Cournot models, to study the effects of firm characteristics, market characteristics, and innovation on market …, varying levels of marginal cost reducing returns-to-innovation, varying costs associated with innovation, increased returns to … innovation from past experience innovating, and varying propensities to innovate within the market. The components mentioned …
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The work paper aims to point out the importance of the new technologies like factor of economic development. The new technologies represent the base of competitive advantage at micro and macro level. Those countries that support research could achieve higher GDP, which is an important issue. In...
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A growing body of research is focusing on banking organizational issues, emphasizing the difficulties encountered by hierarchically organized banks in lending to informationally opaque borrowers. While the two extreme cases of hierarchical and non{hierarchical organizations are typically...
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This paper focuses on the innovation system in the Benetton case: on the one hand, it puts in evidence the ability of … innovations; on the other hand, it investigates on the characteristics of the circulation of innovation among Benetton suppliers …
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competing thanks to innovations in products/services, delivery processes, and management styles. Innovative approaches may also … materialize into the design of facilities. Service providers are in a position to significantly improve convenience, productivity …
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The author provides a conceptual framework for approaching the promotion of technological innovation and its diffusion … in developing countries. Innovation climates in developing countries are, by nature, problematic, characterized by poor … the promotion of innovation. The latter should be understood as the diffusion of technologies-and related practices …
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