Key British scientists were invited to a 'power' breakfast last month to discuss with no less than five ministers their views on how science policy can be developed. And in the chancellor's later annual budget statement, the government underlined its wish to see investment in science as a key to future prosperity. But future money will not all be coming from the government: there are growing ef...

Lean Production is one of the current issues in logistics (Womack, 2004). Clocked production and transport effect an adjustment of the individual process steps. Today only large companies are able to raise enough transport volume for an individual transport solution and so assure the resulting advantages of decreasing storage costs and capital lockup. An individually clocked transport in small ...

The Asia-Pacific region generates over half of global economic activity (54.2%) and about 43.7% of global trade, and is the most dynamic region in the global economy. At the core of this is an increasingly dynamic, vibrant and entrepreneurial small-medium sized enterprise sector. Advances in information and communications technology, market liberalisation and moves towards closer regional econo...