Taxonomies of patterns of innovation give a dominant role to large firms, and are often based on empirical studies that exclude micro firms. This paper proposes an empirical taxonomy of the innovative firms at the bottom of the size distribution, based on a new survey of 1,234 small firms and...
Unless one is a biologist or librarian, "Taxonomy" is a term so esoteric that it makes his eyes roll. Yet, the person redesigns his intranet or discusses using keywords to tag content for easier searching, and suddenly the concept, if not the term, raises everybody's blood pressure. Like the old...
This paper proposes a new taxonomy of monetary regimes defined by the choice and clarity of the nominal anchor. The regimes are as follows: monetary nonautonomy, weak anchor, money anchor, exchange rate peg, full-fledged inflation targeting, implicit price stability anchor, and inflation targeting lite. This taxonomy captures the commitment-discretion tradeoffs...
This paper develops first a taxonomy of the different instruments that have been developed to improve the integration of environmental concerns in the routines of decision making in other policy fields. The paper starts with a rather narrow definition of EPI, focusing upon institutions to shape the process rather than...
Information inside the company is growing at an exponential rate, as is the cost of not finding the information one needs. IDC estimates that the average knowledge worker spends 15% of his time searching for information, and that half of those searches fail to locate it. Can a company afford...
This paper proposes taxonomy of health insurance arrangements with the purpose of informing both policy analysis of alternative mixed systems of funding health care and data collection on such mixed funding arrangements. This paper also spells out a few other important variables for analyzing the structure and performance of heath...
A new term doing the rounds of the corporate world today, is taxonomies, which implies the ways an organization adopts to organize corporate knowledge so that it can be located, accessed and maintained more easily by the employees of the company. Effective taxonomies minimize the search time involved in organizing...
OXFORD, England -- CoreFiling, the leading provider of XBRL products and services, has launched the CoreFiling Taxonomy Library, a service supporting preparers of XBRL regulatory filings. The library provides a convenient way of examining XBRL taxonomies, and powerful search facilities to help those wishing to tag their financials. ...
Alpha Natural Resources didn't wait long totest the waters of the new US GAAP Taxonomy UGT. On June 23, the first day companies could file their XBRL documents usingthe new UGT, the supplier of high-quality Appalachian coal to electricutilities, steel producers and heavy industry became the first company tofile its...
Standard Taxonomy Will Enable Multiple Stakeholders, across Business and IT, to Better Define Risk Management Profiles SAN FRANCISCO, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The Open Group, a vendor -- and technology-neutral consortium focused on open standards and global interoperability within and between enterprises, today announced that the organization's...
Three SEC Rule Proposals on XBRL Issued within Past 30 Days WASHINGTON, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- XBRL US, the national consortium for XML standards for business and financial information reporting, announced that the infrastructure it developed for US GAAP reporting in XBRL format is ready and able...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Teragram, a SAS company and the leading provider of multilingual natural language processing technologies, has been selected by Tribune Interactive TI, a division of Tribune Company, to supply taxonomy management, automatic metadata generation and entity and events extraction technology. TI feeds content from Tribune Company's various newspaper...
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-13 June 2008-Open Text augments its Web 2.0 SolutionsC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Open Text Corporation, a software company and provider of enterprise content management ECM, announced on 12 June that improvements have been made to its portfolio of Enterprise 2.0 solutions. Open Text declared that...
PARIS AFP — Two years after Pluto was struck from the planetary A-list and downgraded to "dwarf-planet" status, the ninth rock from the Sun regained some dignity Thursday by lending its name to a new category of celestial bodies. In a revised taxonomy of the mainly lifeless objects...
The new Science News format is delightful, but please don't attempt to extend the reformatting to biological taxonomy. "Spiders boost mercury levels" (SN 5/10/08, p. 14) discusses "spiders and other insects living near a mercury-contaminated river." Spiders are no more insects than humans are birds. J.C. MCLOUGHLIN, TAOS,...
NEW YORK, June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- SocialMedia Networks announced that co-founder and CEO Seth Goldstein is presenting the initial keynote today at the IAB Leadership Forum: User-Generated Content at 9:15 a.m. The address, "Wikis & Widgets, Blogs & Tweets: Defining User-Generated Content & Social Media" will cover the...
Pratylenchus (nematoda: pratylenchidae); diagnosis, biology, pathogenicity and management. Castillo, Pablo and Nicola Vovlas. BRILL 2007 529 pages $210.00 Paperback Nematology monographs and perspectives; v.6 QL391 They strike in both temperate and tropic...
Plant patterning; structural and molecular genetic aspects. Galun, Esra. World Scientific 2007 499 pages $88.00 Hardcover QK731 Drawing on the latest research in genetics, molecular biology, microscopy, intercellular and intracellular signaling and model plants,...
Thaddeus William Harris (1795-1856); nature, science, and society in the life of an American naturalist. Elliott, Clark A. Lehigh University Press 2008 294 pages $59.50 Hardcover QL31 He was a physician, then a teacher...
The great cacti; biogeography and ethnobotany. Yetman, David. U. of Arizona Press 2007 297 pages $59.95 Hardcover The Southwest Center series QK495 The amiable host of the public television series The Desert...
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