Do high levels of human capital foster economic growth by facilitating technology adoption? If so, countries with more human capital should have adopted more rapidly the skilled-labor augmenting technologies becoming available since the 1970's. High human capital levels should therefore have translated into fast growth in more compared to less...
We study the determinants of capital intensity and technology content of foreign direct investment. For this we use sectoral industry data on U.S. foreign investment abroad, and data on host countries' institutional characteristics, like protection of property rights, labor standards and constitutional arrangements. In our regressions we find that better...
The article talks about the value chain mapping that can find hidden value in even the oldest industries. For decades, packaged seafood production was considered to be a quintessential scale business pardon the pun. The seafood industry believed itself to be engaged in can making and canning, capital-intensive activities that...
UK Mills To Maintain Intensive Spending Programs Into 1988 to Update Technology U.K. textile manufacturers intend to maintain their intensive capital spending into 1988, although the majority of this will be to update technology rather than to expand capacity. ...
Executives and investors have reliable tools for measuring performance in capital-intensive sectors such as manufacturing, retailing, and consumer goods. In general, the math is simple: when managers generate Returns On Invested Capital ROIC above their cost of capital, they create value. That formula makes it relatively easy to compare the...
Asset management - i.e., the acquisition, use, maintenance, modification and disposal of critical assets and properties - is vital to most businesses' performance and success. The more capital-intensive the operation, the more business performance is tied to the avaliability, maintenance and deployment of the assets. Good asset management...
The paper proposes a simple equilibrium model of venture capital star-up entrepreneurship and innovation. Venture capitalists not only finance but also advise start-up entrepreneurs and thereby add value to new firms. The paper shows how a productive and active venture capital industry boosts innovation based growth. It also demonstrates the...
This white paper reports on some of the issues in developing data-intensive applications in a Grid environment. In the context of this paper, data-intensive applications are those that explore, analyze, visualize, and otherwise manipulate very large scientific datasets. The paper presents several motivating applications from diverse scientific and engineering fields...
Much has been written about how to unlock a company's hidden value. Yet an increasing body of knowledge that draws on human resource accounting, intellectual asset management, actuarial science, and finance and economic theory seeks to determine how much. Answering the question, "How much of this hidden value could be...
TEL AVIV AFP — Former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, comatose since January, has been transferred to intensive care, a spokesman for the Tel Aviv hospital where he is being treated told AFP. "Sharon has been taken to the intensive care unit," Anat Dolev said Wednesday, adding that there...
Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, April 24 AScribe Newswire -- Nonprofits are facing pressing needs for investment capital but report widespread obstacles to accessing that capital, according to a new report from the Johns Hopkins University's Nonprofit Listening Post Project. "We...
NEW DELHI AFP — India's best-known environmentalist Medha Patkar, who was on hunger strike to protest a controversial dam project, was in intensive care after police forcibly took her to hospital. Patkar was in the eighth day of a fast in the Indian capital when she was taken away...
Knowledge-intensive processes and systems power the contemporary business age. Acquiring strategic knowledge and utilizing the same to achieve business success is known as Knowledge Management KM. Philanthropic enterprises use human and intellectual capital for the knowledge-intensive work they do. These enterprises undergo organizational changes from time to time to improve...
This paper empirically examines how technology and capital intensity are related with the firm's global sourcing decision. Firm-level data are derived from a survey covering all manufacturing industries in Japan without any firm-size threshold. Firms are disaggregated by their make-or-buy decision (in-house or outsourcing) and by their choice of sourcing...
Although software publishing is not an inventory-intensive business, many companies over the past few years have tried to reduce the amount of working capital that is required to support their finished goods and components inventories. Currently, the Although software publishing is not an inventory-intensive business,...
NEW YORK AFP — Former US president Bill Clinton was removed from intensive care, and managed to take his first steps since undergoing multiple-bypass open heart surgery. "He has been sitting up in bed, and has walked across the room with assistance and sat in a chair, all signs...
IRVINE, Calif--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 27, 1996--Compute Intensive Inc., a leader in large-scale networking solutions, Tuesday announced Neal J. Linson as its vice president of strategic planning and information systems.Linson joins Compute Intensive from Western Digital, where he had been the chief information architect and manager of computing systems and technology. ...
The relentless force of globalization has left only one sustainable path to profitability for firms operating in high-wage, developed nations - to compete based on superior human capital capabilities and strategies. Any benefits that were historically associated with superior technology and access to capital both physical and financial are now...
Depending on the definition of the tax base, the statutory corporate tax rate implies rather different measures of effective average and marginal tax rates. This paper develops a model of a monopolistically competitive industry with extensive and intensive business investment and shows how these margins respond to changes in average...
Depending on the definition of the tax base, the statutory corporate tax rate implies rather different measures of effective average and marginal tax rates. This paper develops a model of a monopolistically competitive industry with extensive and intensive business investment and shows how these margins respond to changes in average...
