In order to explain the success of entrepreneurial firms, it is necessary to identify the conditions that generate new business opportunities. Emerging economies such as China are perceived as high risk environments due to fundamental institutional transformations. Yet, there’s no conclusive evidence how the contextual nature of emerging economies impact the conditions for entrepreneurial firms...

for the keynote lecture at the Fifth International Symposium on Human Survivability (21-22 November 2016, Kyoto University, Japan) Whether by error, by terror, or by war, humanity has reached the technological capability to cause its own extinction. In the 21st century, anthropogenic risks, inter alia stemming from technological advances in fields such as bioengineering, artificial intelligence...

In this paper we study the implications of general-purpose technological growth for asset prices. The model features two types of shocks: “small”, frequent, and disembodied shocks to productivity and “large” technological innovations, which are embodied into new vintages of the capital stock. While the former affect the economy on impact, the latter affect the economy with lags, since firms nee...

due to the tough on-going competition between producers of commodities and services, the prices of products are continuously going down nowadays. to avoid bankruptcy in such circumstances, organizations have focused on the application of technological innovations that enable them to respond to the needs of their clients. it is to this end that they attempt to gain the market and increase their ...

Credit card default losses increased dramatically in the 80s and 90s, from 3% to over 5% of outstanding debt. We explore whether technological progress in debt collection is behind this change by developing a new theory featuring costly state verification with signals. We motivate our approach by the predominance of informal bankruptcy in the credit card market, which necessitates the costly in...

The relationship between the university-the enterprise and the government evolved towards the Triple Helix model and allowed, through a new strategy of innovating University, the understanding of the research work as researching at risk, this is the integration of the scientific production and the management of the results as a global tool, which means the generation of knowledge plus the gener...

Over 1%-15% of the population worldwide is affected by nephrolithiasis, which remains the most common and costly disease that urologists manage today. Identification of at-risk individuals remains a theoretical and technological challenge. The search for monogenic causes of stone disease has been largely unfruitful and a technological challenge; however, several candidate genes have been implic...

recently several independent studies have been directed in governmental institutions, as well as the private sector to investigate the technological state of iranian industries, and to evaluate the possibility of utilizing the present facility, for economy reconstruction, sa well as new developments. they have mainly looked upon industial services, and production oriented technologies, with the...

In a world of ever increasing technological advances, users of technology are at risk for exceeding human memory limitations. A gap analysis was conducted through reviewing literature in the field of human error or specifically transition errors in emergency room (ER) operations to identify the current state of technology available. The gap analysis revealed the technological needs of ER health...

Organizational responsiveness is a critical factor for success of any business. It requires business organizations to understand and respond to changes in its external and internal environment. As a consequence, organizations are required to create a dynamic internal environment. This dynamism is built around exchanging information and ideas relating to business sustainability, progress, and gr...