The paper econometrically investigates the determinants of industrial agglomeration in 2001, taking as reference recently developed measures. The considered explanatory variables comprised sector-level variables and local infrastructure and incentive policies variables. The evidence showed that variables reflecting input utilization and knowledge spillovers at sector-level had important impacts...

With biomedical research becoming ever more computationally intensive, the challenge is to find sophisticated software tools that can keep pace with new requirements, while still being easy to use and secure. We describe a technical implementation of an infrastructure to manage the full research ecosystem from participant management, to data and sample collection, and finally to data storage, i...

This article summarizes the key points of a technology and telecommunications infrastructure assessment conducted by the University of Hawai'i Telecommunications and Information Policy Group (TIPG) in partnership with the Pacific Association for Clinical Training (PACT). It includes an overview of telecommunications infrastructure and services in the U.S.-Affiliated Pacific Islands (USAPI) juri...

Low-carbon energy system transformations are usually seen from a technical perspective; the decisive societal dimensions of actors and institutions are widely neglected. We contribute to filling this gap by reviewing the German energy transition (Energiewende), which targets a competitive low-carbon economy until 2050, jointly from the three perspectives of technology, actors and institutions. ...

CLARIN (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure) is regarded as one of the most important European research infrastructures, offering and promoting a wide array of useful services for (digital) research in linguistics and humanities. However, the assessment of the users for its core technical development has been highly limited, therefore, it is unclear if the community is thoro...

Infrastructures are persistent socio-technical systems used to deliver different kinds of services. Researchers have looked into how awareness of infrastructures in the areas of sustainability [6, 10] and software appropriation [11] can be provided. However, designing infrastructure-aware systems has specific requirements, which are often ignored. In this paper we explore the challenges when de...

The objective of this paper is a comprehensive study of effective factors on success of B2B electronic commerce that are under control of SMEs themselves These factors include individual features of companies and environment have no influence on them. In this paper critical factors are divided into four main groups; business infrastructure, human resources, client interface and technical infras...

The health care industry is increasingly becoming a knowledge-based community that is connected to hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, and customers for sharing knowledge, reducing administrative costs and improving the quality of care. Thus, the success of health care depends critically on the collection, analysis and seamless exchange of clinical, billing, and utilization information or knowledge...