Observatory of European SMEs 2002

Bene-Bus Benchmarking of e-business solutions for Western and Eastern European SMEs

EU SMEs and E-Business Innovation

Although motivating electronic business (e-business) adoption and implemention by smalland medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is endorsed by policies and initiatives introduced by the European Union (EU), a number of challenges arise as the result of a limited conceptual understanding of the relationship between SMEs and information and communication technologies (ICTs). Relatively little is known...

ar X iv : a st ro - p h / 02 03 41 7 v 1 2 3 M ar 2 00 2 Clustering at high redshift

1 ST European Coordinating Facility, European Southern Observatory, K.-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2, D-85748 Garching bei Muenchen, Germany 2 Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, via Tiepolo 11, I-34131 Trieste, Italy 3 European Southern Observatory, K.-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2, D-85748 Garching bei Muenchen, Germany 4 Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, via dell’Osservatorio 2, Monteporzio, Italy 5 Os...

ar X iv : a st ro - p h / 02 11 29 9 v 1 1 3 N ov 2 00 2 The dusty environment of quasars . Far - IR properties of Optical

We present the ISO far-IR photometry of a complete sub-sample of optically selected bright quasars belonging to two complete surveys selected through multicolour (U,B,V,R,I) techniques. The ISOPHOT camera on board of the ISO Satellite was used to target these quasars at wavelengths of 7.3, 11.5, 60, 100 and Max-Planck I. für Extraterrestrische Physik, Postfach 1312, 85741 Garching, Germany, ema...

Adoption Issues of Business-to-Business Internet Commerce in European SMEs

This article presents the preliminary findings from an explorative case study concerning barriers, benefits and use of SMEs adoption of business-to-business Internet commerce. The main findings were that SMEs embrace the Internet mainly just by chance (J-B-C); the government and public administration are seen as the main change agents in the adoption and diffusion of Internet commerce among SME...