Creative industries represent a contemporary business and political concept which does not have sufficient scientific elaboration beside the significant role it has within economic affairs in developed countries. Although there is no consensus about activities should be included of creative industries, clear indications that education strongly linked to those are evident. The theoretical resear...

I analyze how antitrust law and sectoral regulatory rules should be applied to network industries. I first identify a number of relevant features of network industries that may affect the way in which antitrust law and regulatory rules should be applied. These relevant features include (among others) network effects, market structure, market share and profits inequality, choice of technical sta...

Network Slicing allows to simultaneously support the specific needs of vertical industries with a diverse range of networking and computing requirements. Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) has been defined to deploy multiple network services on a common infrastructure. We extend the NFV concept to vertical services, i.e. services implemented on top of network services and providing the appl...

Today's process manufacturers are faced with a volatile economy, intense competition and rising energy/material costs. Improving operational for margin purposes, but also for long term success. Cost reduction and quality/productivity improvement have now become key levers for gaining competitive advantage. Operational excellence is the pursuit of conducting business in a manner that continuousl...

1. INTRODUCTION Recently, there has been increased interest in the simulation of large-scale radio networks. Two major and conflicting obstacles in the simulation of large-scale radio networks are the simulation run time and the accuracy of the simulation results. Since all projects have time constrains, it is often not impossible to conduct lengthy simulation experiments. In our experience, fo...

This paper provides a discussion of the consequences of digital convergence on strategic management. The process of digital convergence was initiated a few years ago by the rapid progress in digital technologies and has gained increased practical importance since then. In order to show its multiple effects on strategic management we choose a three-steps approach for this analysis. In a first st...

The provision of adequate health care facilities to cater for the health of workers is an important consideration in the management of manufacturing industries, since productivity is dependent on the health status of the workers. There are very few studies evaluating the health care provision in Nigerian industries. This study elucidates such health care services in Edo and Delta States of Nige...