This paper puts health questions within the context of national development and industrial policy. It follows the idea of structuralist, Marxist and Schumpeterian approaches, in which industry and innovations form determining factors for the dynamism in capitalist economies and relative positions within the world economy. All countries that have developed and started to compete under better con...

The aim of this paper is an investigation on the role of demand in industrial dynamics. Despite the decades-long debate on demand and innovation, theory still lacks a comprehensive analytical formulation. This paper proposes a model where demand is conceived as a peculiar blend of two conditions, market size, and users’ sophistication. These conditions drive firms’ incentives to innovate. As ma...

Fungicide mixtures produced by the agrochemical industry often contain low-risk fungicides, to which fungal pathogens are fully sensitive, together with high-risk fungicides known to be prone to fungicide resistance. Can these mixtures provide adequate disease control while minimizing the risk for the development of resistance? We present a population dynamics model to address this question. We...

Muhammad Qasim 1, Zafar Hayat Khan 2, Ilyas Khan 3 and Qasem M. Al-Mdallal 4,* 1 Department of Mathematics, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Park Road, Chak Shahzad, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan; [email protected] 2 Department of Mathematics, University of Malakand, Khyber Pakhtunktwo 18800, Pakistan; [email protected] 3 Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Colle...

Donghan Kang a, Kyungsik Lee b, Sungsoo Park a,∗, Kyungchul Park c and Sang-Baeg Kim c a Department of Industrial Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 373-1 Kusong-Dong, Yusong-Gu, Taejon 305-701, Korea E-mail: [email protected] b ETRI, 161 Kajong-Dong, Yusong-Gu, Taejon 305-350, Korea c Telecommunication Network Lab, Korea Telecom, Junmin-Dong, Yusong-Gu, Taej...