Regional Port Productivity in APEC

Regional Port Productivity in APEC

The regional growth of the goods and services trade has placed greater pressure on the ports of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) members, especially in the developing countries. The purpose of this study is to apply the generalized metafrontier Malmquist productivity index (gMMPI) to compare the port productivity of developed countries (DCs) and developing countries (LDCs) in APEC. ...

Regional Efficiency, Innovation and Productivity

A blossoming stream of the regional innovation systems (RIS) literature is being devoted to investigate the relationship between RIS efficiency and productivity growth. Our study aims at evaluating: first, the ex-post relative technical efficiency in innovation in a sample of OECD regions by means of a DEA (data envelopment analysis) methodology. We will also match these results with regression...

Regional Productivity Trends in Chinese Industry

Beyond WIMP: Designing NUIs to Sup- port Productivity Document Tasks

After decades of WIMP-based computing, a paradigm shift is occurring in the consumer device landscape as touchscreen appliances and applications invade the market. In the professional office world, however, WIMP software still prevails for so-called "productivity" work for lack of adequate modern solutions. In this paper, I argue that for this status quo to start to change, interface designers ...

APEC Study Centers Consortium 2011 : Promoting Academic Dialogue Among the APEC Economies APEC Update

1 The annual APEC Study Centers Consortium (ASCC) conference convened on September 22-23, 2011, in San Francisco, California, with Vinod Aggarwal of the Berkeley APEC Study Center and Richard Feinberg of the UC San Diego APEC Study Center co-chairing the conference. Within the context of the Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) III, the ASCC 2011 conference brought together scholars from 19 of the 21...