Japánban lelassult a gazdasági növekedés, az ipar külföldre vándorol, vele együtt megkezdődött a K+F külföldre telepítése is, mindeközben pedig romlik a kutatás nemzetközi versenyhelyzete. Az .érett. gazdaság újabb szakaszában a K+F-től azt várják, hogy gyorsítsa meg a...

According to the General Innovation Index, the not large European countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Netherlands, Finland, Switzerland and Sweden) are among the leaders of innovativeness of the national economy. For the Europe scale, by number of population, area, representation in...

This paper introduces the evolving understanding and conceptualization of innovation process models. We categorize the different approaches to understand and model innovation processes into two types. First, the so-called innovation management approach focuses on the evolution of corporate...

In the process of making decisions on building a single-family home, many variables of a cost nature should be taken into consideration, which will affect the total level of costs of use of the building in the long-term perspective. Life Cycle Costing (LCC) is a method that can support this...

One way of thinking about research and development is to recognise that firms are trying to solve particular design problems. We often build these design problems into our models, but are forced to oversimplify them in order to make the models solvable. The approach taken in this paper is to...

This paper is aiming to obtain some relevant data regarding the technical and economical feasibility of emulsified fuels technology and to evaluate the profitability of its use as alternative combustibles for boilers. The first part of the paper presents the main results published in the open...

The slower productivity growth in Canada relative to that experienced in the United States in the second half of the 1990s has been a matter of great concern to Canadians, with a wide variety of explanations put forward to account for this development. A key issue is whether this slower...

The communication presents a reflexion on the applicability of the concept of area learning like instrument from policy from regional development. The originality of the communication is to present a reflexion which goes from the theoretical concept to the implementation on the ground by...

This paper aims to obtain some pertinent data regarding the technico-economic feasability of the technology for producing emulsified combustibles and to evaluate the profitableness of its use as alterrnative combustibles to be burnt in boilers. In the first part of the paper, there is a short...

In the process of making decisions on building a single-family home, many variables of a cost nature should be taken into consideration, which will affect the total level of costs of use of the building in the long-term perspective. Life Cycle Costing (LCC) is a method that can support this...