Making decisions on strategic investments, such as early stage technology, is a complicated task. Early stage technologies are usually costly, and surrounded by uncertainty. The potential benefits are often hard to quantify prior to implementation. Thus, how could managers make good decisions in a high-risk, technically complex business when the information they need to makes those decisions co...

Companies that are seeking to improve their environmental performance have a challenge in reconciling high level goals and practical decision making at the working level. To address this challenge companies need to develop key environmental metrics from high level goals and cascade them through all levels of management decision making. One decision-making level of interest in manufacturing invo...

   Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) technology is a solution for implementation of the nanometer sized circuits and it can be a suitable replacement for CMOS. Similar to CMOS technology, designing the basic computational element such as adder with the QCA technology is regarded as one of the most important issues that extensive researches have been done about it. In this paper, a new eff...

Technology selection is a decision making area of major concern to today’s manager. Technologies can create or destroy profits and have the ability to create new industries and transform or destroy existing ones. The dynamics of global business have changed the shape of organisational strategies. Now the focus is on a network rather than a single unit. This change has also affected the technolo...

Design of any complex system entails many objectives to reach and constraints to satisfy. This multi–objective nature of the problem ensures that the technology solution is always a compromise between conflicting objectives. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the application of Niched Pareto genetic algorithm as a relatively fast and straightforward method for obtaining technology sets...

Over the last decade, aptamers have begun to find their way from basic research to diverse commercial applications. The development of diagnostics is even more widespread than clinical applications because aptamers do not have to be extensively modified to enhance their in vivo stability and pharmacokinetics in diagnostic assays. The increasing attention has propelled the technical progress of ...

Assisted reproductive technologies refer to procedures in which the oocyte is handled or manipulated in vitro before replacement, either as an oocyte or an embryo. Because of rapid advances in this area, infertile couples may seek direct referral for assisted reproductive treatments, instead of trying simpler measures such as ovulation induction and intrauterine insemination. It is important to...

Previous research based on analysis of fertility behavior and expressed preferences shows that many Australian parents want both a son and a daughter. However, most respondents to a representative survey of Australians did not approve of IVF or abortion for sex-selection purposes, and most did not think a hypothetical blue or pink pill to select sex of a child should be legal.

Financial markets in the past decade witnessed an enormous interest of IPO based financing of technology-based business. At the same time large sums of venture capital were provided to technology-oriented enterprises. In this article we review recent developments in the provision of equity for technology-based enterprises. After a brief introduction in the possibilities for financing enterprise...