Business clusters play an important role in developing and improving the economic performance of countries and in promoting the welfare of people. Business development service providers (hereafter referred to as, BDSP) have a considerable role in providing specialized services pertinent to the conditions of active enterprises in clusters and in promoting their performance level in order to impr...

a non-profit institution devoted to research on network industries, electronic commerce, telecommunications, the Internet, " virtual networks " comprised of computers that share the same technical standard or operating system, and on network issues in general. This paper examines the effect of recommender systems on the diversity of sales. Two anecdotal views exist about such effects. Some beli...

Knowledge-based recommender technologies support customers and sales representatives in the identification of appropriate products and services. These technologies are especially useful for complex and high involvement products such as cars, computers, or financial services. In this paper we present the VITA (Virtualis Tanacsado) financial services recommendation environment which has been depl...

– We analyze a database comprising quarterly sales of 55624 pharmaceutical products commercialized by 3939 pharmaceutical firms in the period 1992–2001. We study the probability density function (PDF) of growth in firms and product sales and find that the width of the PDF of growth decays with the sales as a power law with exponent β = 0.20 ± 0.01. We also find that the average sales of product...

In this paper we present experiences on configurable products gathered in co-operation with Finnish companies. The reasons that made configurable products important include the ability to efficiently fulfil a wide range of customer requirements, shorter lead times in the sales-delivery process and increased control of production. We discuss the product development and sales-delivery processes o...

This study proposes a novel option-revenue sharing coordination contract framework. In the proposed model, the retailer determines the number of order sales effort. The manufacturer sets the price of products for the wholesale strategy. The investigated supply chain problem analyzes the results of different strategies. In the proposed coordination contract problem, two types of games including ...

Searching for and selecting complex products on the World-Wide-Web is a difficult task for consumers as well as for business professionals. The main reason for this well-known deficit in e-commerce is that, unlike normal business situations, there is no intelligent support or assistance for the user on the Web. This is particularly evident in the selection of products/services or when navigatin...

five years by the “coming of age” of agricultural biotechnology. Perhaps a more appropriate metaphor would be the birth and the preschool years of the first set of commercial products from recombinant DNA technology. We have witnessed much laboratory development, field testing, and seeking of regulatory approval in the United States (U.S.) and abroad in the last decade. Finally, the first signi...

Case-based reasoning technology opens a very promising and enriching new field for electronic commerce applications. However, current CBR applications for sales support in electronic commerce are limited to fixed, unchangeable products. In order to implement sales support for configurable products, the customization of base products must be supported as well. For this purpose, an interactive op...