Technology is the cornerstone of national development. The presence and widespread use of high technology marks the distinguishing characteristics between developed and developing countries. It is, thus, important to have a comparative analysis of high technology firms in developed and developing countries. This edited book does exactly that. The editors assembled a wide array of world-renowned...

This presentation provides comparative analysis of agricultural holdings in Estonia based on the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) data. The FADN data for reference years 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003 have been analysed. The FADN data analyses showed, that there are very big differences in the structure of the agricultural holdings. Individual farms represent ca 92% of the total population of ag...

Purpose of this contribution Some regulations aim to improve innovation or technological advancement, or at least remove possible obstacles. Competition law, both national and European, is a less known part of the law and is mostly handled by specialised lawyers. The purpose of this contribution is to make the part of competition law that aims to improve innovation more widely known. Two more o...

There is a new attention across disciplines to narrative knowing--the impulse to story life events into order and meaning. In this paper, narrative is presented as a framework for understanding the subject and interview data in qualitative research. Examples of narrative approaches are offered, narrative analyses are contrasted with other kinds of qualitative analyses, and truth in narratives i...