The PILOT project comprised partners from nine European countries. The national research teams have conducted a series of case studies on non-researchintensive, so called low-tech companies in eleven countries, investigating their value chains and regional networks, and the policies that impact on these firms and on low-tech and medium-low-tech (LMT) sectors in general. A second thread of work ...

In this paper, we explore the increasingly significant role of human capital in regional development by presenting a number of hypotheses about the nature and extent of regional occupational specialization and exploring these with data analysis on national trends and on the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area. Nationally, we find that a region's occupational mix cannot be mapped simply from ...

Recent institutional changes, marketization, and globalization have combined to bring about rapid economic growth in contemporary China. One of the direct outcomes is the rapid expansion of large cities and the recurring birth of new cities from small towns and rural villages. Clustered construction cranes are popular scenes in many Chinese cities. One of the noticeable city landmarks is the sp...

The main trends in the development of high–tech industrial enterprises Russian Federation are considered. structure system interaction a science– intensive enterprise with state and small business is proposed, which ensures strategic stability certain «basic part» their processes at same time, allows, based on use advantages business, to ensure high sensitivity its activities implementation ope...

The purpose of this study was to compare a technology-based system, an in-person behavioral weight loss intervention, and a combination of both over a 6-month period in overweight adults. Fifty-one subjects (age: 44.2 ± 8.7 years, BMI: 33.7 ± 3.6 kg/m(2)) participated in a 6-month behavioral weight loss program and were randomized to one of three groups: standard behavioral weight loss (SBWL), ...

Current global trends in the field of rapid population growth and urbanization have led to an increase labor market. The development industrial cooperation has number science-intensive specialties resulting from economic activity, which scientific technological potential through work high-tech companies as well emergence some difficulties conditions their employees (Beliakov et al., 2019; Blume...

This paper highlights the use of an integrated user-centered virtual learning environment through extensible simulation learning modules that is currently being developed to enhance undergraduate curricula to meet the industrial needs for engineers with education in lean. The purpose of the research is to address these expectations by developing learning modules that incorporate lean simulation...

As time passes, change occurs. With this change comes the need for surveillance. One may be a technician on an assembly line and in need of a surveillance technique to monitor the number of defective components produced. On the other hand, one may be an administrator of a hospital in need of surveillance measures to monitor the number of patient falls in the hospital or to monitor surgical outc...

The current situation in Iran suggests an appropriate basis for developing biotechnology industries, because the patents for the majority of hi-tech medicines registered in developed countries are ending. Biosimilar and technology-oriented companies which do not have patents will have the opportunity to enter the biosimilar market and move toward innovative initiatives. The present research pro...