Uncertainty is one of the major inherent difficulties in developing innovative products, due to their highly dynamic markets and technologies. The presence of a large degree of uncertainty leads to high R&D risks, resulting in many R&D failures. Therefore, it is important to manage R&D risks through all R&D stages to improve R&D project success rates. This paper proposes a new risk management f...

BACKGROUND Today, the increasing demand for complementary medicine encourages health care providers to adapt and create integrative medicine departments or services within clinics. However, because of their differing philosophies, historical development, and settings, merging the partners (conventional and complementary medicine) is often difficult. It is necessary to understand the similaritie...

introduction Over the last few decades, researchers have taken a thorough and critical look at corporate governance from various perspectives. They have studied how legal, social, and market forces influence the control mechanisms that a company adopts to prevent or discourage self-interested behavior by management. They have examined the structure and operations of the board of directors. They...

the vantage-point of the early twenty-first century, the iconic status of Gordon Bunshaft's works, both urban and suburban, are un-questioned in architectural circles. His adaptation of modernist principles to the needs of business stands today a style in its own right. Buildings such as Lever House and Connecticut General are, in many respects, visual texts by which we can read the collective ...

PREFACE In the past few years, the Finnish Business and Policy Forum EVA has treated the issues of creativity and business-culture interaction with growing interest. This report is an extension of the June, 2004 EVA conference on " Creativity through Competitiveness " and is published in cooperation with the Creative Finland Association. Entertaining a subject quite different from past EVA repo...