Investment in equipment and new ideas (technological and managerial) are crucial engines of growth. Investing in capital allows existing firms to incorporate new technologies and can be an important part of their strategies to reorganise production processes towards global best practice. The dynamism of innovative new firms which introduce new products and processes is also important for growth...

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Around the 1930s, many countries began developing a systematic practice of keeping national accounts—comprehensive statistical systems that could provide an empirical foundation for economic planning and policy. Different countries approached this task in markedly different ways. And yet, at the same time that various countries worked independently to develop their own methods of national accou...

Anja Kersting and Karlheinz Pappenberger Library of the University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany Purpose With the illush'ation of a best practice example for an implementation of open access in a scientific institution, the paper will be useful in fostering future open access projects. Design/methodology/approach The paper starts with a brief overview of the existing situation of open access i...

Interdisciplinary work groups have proved to be one of the best practices (in terms of efficiency) in modern organizations. Large applications have many different users who can play different roles with responsibilities and rights depending on such roles. There are so many roles, groups, relationships among them, tasks, and collaborations, that it is very difficult to develop an application wit...

Porphyry is a stone material, volcanic in origin, characterised by its development along parallel planes (photo n. ). This characteristic allows for it to be used as a semi-finished product (untreated photo n. ) as well as after “splitting”. Porphyry’s considerable resistance to wear and tear, due to atmospheric agents, is the feature that has consented to its diffusion in street furniture but ...

Physical therapy is not limited to a simple rehabilitation procedure; this paper proposes a method for production of interactive environments in order to support the recovery process for people with temporary physical disability. The proposed method preconizes the rehabilitation as a set of ordered steps, taking into account best practices in occupational therapy coming from several actors invo...