Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to explore why the entrepreneurial activities are agglomerative in a cluster and to investigate the government agencies’ functions in the industry cluster that can construct favourable environment for entrepreneurial development. Design/methodology/approach – The case study method is chosen to collect in-depth data to investigate the research domain, and th...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study is environmental impact assessment of the industrial estate development planning. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2010 in Isfahan province, Iran. GIS and matrix methods were applied. Data analysis was done to identify the current situation of the region, zoning vulnerable areas, and scoping the region. Quantitative evaluation was done b...

background: developmental activities especially the establishment of more than 20 industrial units in semnan province caused the officers worries about increased concentration of heavy metals in drinking water supplies and probably increasing of health risk at consumers. the aim of the study was to investigate the effect of semnan province industrial development on the health risk level caused ...

Successor planning process in family businesses is recognized as one of the most important phases of family business lifecycle. Family businesses play a vital role in developing regional and global economy and fuel the creation of new jobs, new business growth and increase in entrepreneurial activities. In this study, it was attempted to investigate the impact of family business characteristics...

Currently industrial automation systems are built using a hierarchical top-down approach, yielding tightly coupled and low flexibility systems. Holonic and intelligent agent-based industrial control systems have the potential to be much more highly robust and flexible systems with very loose coupling between subsystems. Despite this potential these systems are slow to be adopted by industry. Th...

Background: Sampling was conducted on particles smaller than ten microns (PM10) in a high-traffic urban region once a week for two years in which fifteen heavy metals were measured. Methods: positive matrix factorization (EPA-PMF5), was used for source apportionment and characterization of the collected PM10. Assessment of cancer risk resulting from metals including arsenic, cadmium, chromiu...