This paper explores the impact of management characteristics and patterns of collaboration on a firm's innovation performance in transforming innovation resources into commercially successful outputs. Both Data Envelopment Analysis DEA and Stochastic Frontier Analysis SFA are employed to benchmark a firm's innovative efficiency against best practice. Quality and the variety...
This paper explores the impact of management characteristics and patterns of collaboration on a firm's innovation performance in transforming innovation resources into commercially successful outputs. These questions are investigated using a firm level survey database for 465 innovative British Small and Medium Enterprises SMEs over the years 1998-2001. Both Data...
CHICAGO -- In December 2007, the Department of Labor established new rules that approved target date funds as a qualified default investment alternative in retirement plans. Since then, target date funds, which offer automatic portfolio rebalancing as participants progress toward retirement, have increasingly replaced historically low-yielding money market funds as...
Veritude ,a leading staffing services provider, today announced that it has two newsales executives to support its continued growth in strategic regions.Rick Lewis has joined the company as senior sales executive for theSouthwest regional sales team based in Las Colinas, Texas. Daniel Megan hasbeen hired as senior sales executive for...
OTTAWA -- Embotics, the Virtualization Lifecycle Management[TM] Company, won a coveted Companies-to-Watch Award, one of four separate awards categories that make up the 2008 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Awards, the pre-eminent technology awards program in Canada. The Companies-to-Watch Award honours early-stage Canadian technology companies in business less than...
Radiant Energy Corporation, (TSX VENTURE: RDT)("Radiant" or the "Company") the developer and marketer of radiant de-icing systems, is pleased to announce that it has appointed David Speirs as President of Radiant Aviation Services, Inc., the Company's U.S. subsidiary, where he will manage Radiant's rapid expansion in the North American aviation...
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Cadence president and CEO John Patton delivered the keynote presentation for the first in the annual series of the Project Management Institute Portland Chapter's monthly meetings. His speech, "What Kind of Leader Are You? Leadership Characteristics of Great Project Managers," served to bring a critical eye to...
NEW YORK -- The Board of Directors of Lazard World Dividend & Income Fund (NYSE:LOR) has authorized the Fund to declare today a monthly dividend distribution of $0.1167 per share on the company's outstanding common stock. The dividend is payable on October 23, 2008 to shareholders of record on October...
Red Herring magazine has named Udutu( www.udutu.com ), a provider of web-based e-learning software and services,a winner of the "Red Herring Top 50 Canada" award -- a prestigious listhonoring this year's most promising private technology ventures in Canada.Udutu was chosen in the Internet Services category for its technologyinnovation, management strength...
NEW YORK -- The Board of Directors of Lazard Global Total Return & Income Fund (NYSE:LGI) has authorized the Fund to declare today, pursuant to a level distribution policy, a monthly dividend distribution of $0.1042 per share on the company's outstanding common stock. The dividend is payable on October 23,...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- The Templeton closed-end Funds referenced below, which trade on the New York Stock Exchange, today released portfolio allocation updates containing the following information as of August 31, 2008: * Asset Allocation * Ten Largest Positions/Portfolio Characteristics * International Allocation/Net Currency...
Optimal toll design from a network reliability point of view is addressed in this paper. Improving network reliability is proposed as a policy objective of road pricing. A reliability-based optimal toll design model, where on the upper level network performance including travel time reliability is optimized, while...
Uncertainty of traffic network operations has been a subject of lively debate in the last decade. However, little effort has been put in developing control frameworks that are not only aimed at improving the average performance of the system, but also at improving the system robustness and...
What type of emotional transition is experienced by professional dancers who face the end of their career? What does this journey imply? This article discusses the transition experiences of two case studies out of a total sample of fourteen (N=14) international professional ballet dancers who left their...
This study addressed career transitions in view of new environments along with the mobility of individuals across cultural territories. It paid attention to various adjustments individuals can make in their career in relation to their new environment and analysed those adjustment modes in relation to Nicholson's theory...
BALTIMORE, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- SSi Consulting, a business management software consulting firm in the Mid-Atlantic region, recently received the 2008 Microsoft Mid-Atlantic Partner of the Year. This award is given to a partner who has exemplified overall 'best in class' characteristics tied to sales and marketing achievement, client...
NEW YORK -- Each of the Morgan Stanley institutional, closed-end funds listed below (the "Funds") today declared the following dividends. EX-DATE < < RECORD DATE <REINVEST DATEPAYABLE DATE09/26/08 <...
MINNETONKA, Minn., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- MedNet Solutions, a global eClinical technology company specializing in clinical study management systems, today announced the company's active involvement as a speaker, sponsor and exhibitor at the 2008 Society of Clinical Data Management SCDM Annual Conference, to be held Sunday, September 21 through...
CLEVELAND, Sept. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- For the ninth consecutive year, Antares Management Solutions has been named one of NorthCoast 99's best places to work. Since 1999, the Employers Resource Council ERC has annually recognized 99 great workplaces in Northeast Ohio. In choosing the winners, ERC recognized companies...
Citadel Construction has been selected as general contractor for a multi-phased, 46,000 s/f renovation spanning several floors in the massive C-Building or "Center 3" on the main campus of LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, New York. The project, which will create new classroom space and administrative/...
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