13. ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICIAL TO BE NOTIFIED IF AWARD IS MADE 14. OFFICIAL SIGNING FOR APPLICANT ORGANIZATION Name Robert L. Blackwell Name Michael Dockter Title Vice Chancellor for Business and Finance Title Associate Dean for Research Address The University of Tennessee, Memphis Address The University of Tennessee, Memphis 62 Dunlap St., Suite 300 8 South Dunlap Street, C109 Memphis, TN 38163 M...

The article by Daniels and colleagues on expanding the scope of health technology assessment (HTA) to embrace ethical analysis has received endorsement and criticism from commentators in this journal. Referring to this debate, we examine in this article the extent and locus of ethical analysis in HTA processes. An expansion/no-expansion framing of HTA is, in our view, not very fruitful. We argu...

This study analyzes changing trends in U.S. health spending and concludes that although the long-term growth trend has been a good predictor of future spending, periodic differences in the growth trend are important. Of particular concern is the rapid acceleration in health spending beginning in 1998. If left unchecked, the current growth rate will result in almost 24 percent of GDP spent on he...

Today, the mobile phone industry witnesses important changes, shifting from a value chain to a burgeoning business ecosystem. This paper deals with the relationships that are at the very core of mobile OS ecosystems for IMTs (smartphones and PDA): Microsoft-OS, Symbian-OS, Palm-OS and RIM-OS over the period 1998-2006. Our study confirms that an ecosystem’s borders are unclear. More than half of...

• Safeguards against risks include enterprise wide awareness of developments and high-level championing and assessment of ideas Given that innovation and change are inevitable, the challenge confronting leaders is how to structure their organisation’s approach to innovation so that: emerging opportunities within the • operating environment are fully exploited and maximum value for the organisat...

The potential conflicts between animal welfare and efficient farming can often be resolved or at least reduced by showing the financial benefits that improving animal welfare can bring to both society and individual farmers. These benefits include increased profits through: (i) reduced mortality; (ii) improved health; (iii) improved product quality; (iv) improved disease resistance and reduced ...