In order to reduce the risk of complete failure, research managers often adopt a parallel strategy by simultaneously funding several R&D activities and several research teams within each activity. The parallel strategy requires the allocation of an available budget to a number of R&D activities, the determination of the number of research teams within each activity and the amount of funding the...

The Besley-Coate model of representative democracy has the problem of multiple equilibria (Besley-Coate, 1997). We show that requiring the Besley-Coate political equilibria to be iteratively undominated at the voting stage re nes the set of (pure strategy) political equilibrium outcomes only for those cases where at least four candidates stand for election. This note complements the results of ...

In Mexico, the goal of economic growth, sustainability, decrease consumption imported oil fuels and additives meeting climate change commitments with ethanol biofuel is a development not yet resolved. This work based on premise that feedstock, use agricultural lands as function economic, ecological social aspects, inefficient public policies, disinformation lack knowledge, culture attitude popu...