This paper looks at the way in which industrial pharmacists rank the fundamental competences for pharmacy practice. European industrial pharmacists (n = 135) ranked 68 competences for practice, arranged into 13 clusters of two types (personal and patient care). Results show that, compared to community pharmacists (n = 258), industrial pharmacists rank competences centering on research, developm...

Upon us is a new era where globalization is inevitable. With this, the global climate significantly changes with the level of economic influence emerging markets have. China is one such country. Though still considered an emerging market, the speed of its economic growth places it in direct competition with more mature economies, such as the United States and the European Union, both economical...

Analysis of more than 20 projects for clustering small and medium enterprises and supporting organizations in different Latin American countries has uncovered a number of barriers, activities, structures, strategies, policies and procedures that impact competitiveness. These factors mean that there are different appropriate industrial cluster and industrial business models appropriate for the s...

The paper throws new light on the debate about the role played by local knowledge spillovers (LKS) as a driver of regional innovative activity. It transcends the regional level of analysis that has been commonly adopted in the literature so far, using insights from the evolutionary theory of the firm. This makes it possible to derive a typology of mechanisms through which regional agglomeration...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to identify subgroups of the physical and behavioral risk profiles for cardiovascular disease among industrial workers, and to examine predicting factors for the subgroups. SAMPLE AND METHOD Health records of 2,616 male and female workers aged 19-56 years who were employed in an airplane manufacturing industry were analyzed. Data were analyzed using the L...

The paper deals with relationship between industrial policies and territorial environmental policies in industrial clusters, and proposes an innovative approach to the decision making. Because of the globalisation processes, the European SMEs operating in industrial clusters are showing difficulties in maintaining their market competitiveness and nourishing their capability to achieve economic ...

Note prepared for the OECD-Secretariat and the OECD TIP-group Presented at the 2nd OECD-workshop on cluster analysis and cluster-based policy Vienna, May 4th & 5th 1 This draft was prepared by Theo Roelandt and Pim den Hertog using the contributions of the focus group members. A full list of the participants of the focus group and the papers prepared for the focus group meetings has published i...

The study investigates the impact of fiscal incentives on tax compliance behavior firms in industrial clusters Nigeria. Data from 800 drawn three South-East Nigeria were collected using a structured questionnaire through multi-stage sampling procedure. Descriptive statistics and logistic regression model applied to estimate survey responses. major findings show that regular audit, firm size, si...

The paper investigates the role of labour flows in determining the growth of industrial clusters (defined as a combination of industries and spatial areas). Within an ecological approach the role of inter and intra industry as well as of inter and intra cluster interactions is theoretically modelled and empirically tested. This approach is enriched with other economic perspectives in order to t...

In this paper, we examine the role of industrial clusters and infrastructure in mitigating or magnifying the impact of the 1995 Kobe earthquake on the survival of manufacturing plants and their post-earthquake economic performance. Our methodological approach is to use information on building-level and infrastructure damages and other plant and buildingcharacteristics including district-level v...