In this paper, aiming at the problems of backward overall technology, weak competitiveness, poor operation efficiency and low production and economic efficiency in Liaoning equipment manufacturing industry, we based on the theory of constrains and used the DEA model to research its technology upgrading input and output efficiency to find its bottleneck, and then analysis its cause, finally put ...

Indian textile industry occupies a unique position in the Indian economy. Over the period, it has gone through several changes. In the present paper, an attcmpt has been made to present an overview of Indian textile industry in terms of its structure, associated problems, its impact on environment, pollution control strategies, German ban on azo dyes, response of textile ministry to cope with t...

Although knowledge creation is viewed as fundamental for securing a firm’s competitive advantage by scholars of strategic management and organizational learning (Nonaka, 1994; Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995; Prahalad and Hamel, 1990; Nelson 1990; Leonard-Barton, 1992; Teece, 2005), few studies have systematically investigated the specific knowledge creation processes put in place by small hi-tech fi...

Knowledge and the Division of Innovative Labour. Research Policy 23, 523-532. Borenstein, S., MacKie-Mason, J., and Netz, J.S. 2000. Exercising Market Power in Proprietary Aftermarkets. Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. Vol 9, No. 2.Dennis W. Carlton, 2001, A general analysis of exclusionary conduct and refusal to deal — why aspen and kodak are misguided, NBER Working Paper 8105...

The UK textile industry was very prosperous in the past but in the 1970s Britain started to import textile materials from abroad. Since 1990, half of its textile materials have been imported from the EEA (European Economic Area), ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and North America countries. Meanwhile, UK imports from China have increased dramatically. Through comparisons, this pap...

Im Bereich der IT-Industrie werden nahezu jährlich neue Begriffe geprägt, von denen einige zu angesagten BuzzWords aufsteigen. Häufig werden diese jedoch uneinheitlich verwendet. In diesem Artikel werden die Begriffe Internet der Dinge, Tracking & Tracing, Supply Event Management, Logistik 4.0, Industrie 4.0 und schließlich Farming 4.0 beschrieben, verglichen und strukturiert.

Three synthetic datasets - of observation size 15,000, 155,000 and 1,555,000 participants, respectively - were created by simulating eleven cardiac and anthropometric variables from nine collection ages of the ALSAPC birth cohort study. The synthetic datasets retain similar data properties to the ALSPAC study data they are simulated from (co-variance matrices, as well as the mean and variance v...

This paper addresses the importance of tailoring education to suit the specific needs of various companies. In construction industry especially, important is to combine the knowledge of research, general contractors and their sub-contractors with software industry. These are now rather separated in Finland. The paper presents an overview of the current situation of IT education in construction ...