that's the last growth strategy you should try. by Michael Treacy Like swinging for the grand slam in baseball or betting on thetrifecta in horse racing,going for broke with innovation is glamorous. Breakthrough innovations, whether the next blockbuster product or a next-generation business model, create a buzz in the boardroom while lesser forms of innovation go unnoticed. Yet a body of evidence in recentyears makes a strong case that breakthrough innovation should be the growth strategy of last
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GDP • eighth largest by purchasing power parity. • moderately free markets and an inward-oriented economy. • the largest in Latin American nations ere. • one of the fastest-growing major economies in the world with an average annual GDP growth rate of over 5 percent • together with Mexico, has been at the forefront of the Latin American multinationals phenomenon by which, thanks to superior technology and organization, local companies have successfully turned global. 2. Overview
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with overall growth lasting well until 1971, though there are some debates on dating the period, and booms in individual countries differed, some starting as early as 1945, and overlapping the rise of the East Asian economies into the 1980s or 1990s. During this time there was high worldwide economic growth; Western European and East Asian countries in particular experienced unusually high and sustained growth, together with full employment. Contrary to early predictions, this high growth also included
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Nigeria and the relationship between the form and nature of the business enterprise and its sources of funding for its operations. The major findings of this study include the following: SMEs have played and continue to play significant roles in the growth, development and industrialization of many economies the world over. In the case of Nigeria, SMEs have performed below expectation due to a combination of problems which ranges from attitude and habits of SMEs themselves through environmental
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American Journal of Economics 2012, 2(3): 57-60 DOI: 10.5923/j.economics.20120203.06 Linear Function Application: Enlightment to the Impact of Fuel Subsidy Removal in Nigeria Abang I. S.*, Elufisan T.O., Okwubunne A. C. National Centre for Technology Management, an Agency of the Federal Ministry of Science & Technology, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria Abstract This paper adopts a linear function approach to analyse the effect of fuel subsidy removal on the value of Nigerian Naira and
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University of Nottingham Ningbo China Business School Academic Year 2013/14 Autumn Semester Entrepreneurship and Business Maris Farquharson Discuss the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and economic development. Yasong Zhao Student ID: 6511938 Word Count:1994 1. Introduction Over the past decade or so, the term entrepreneurship has become a fashionable way to describing the attempts at large-scale change by individuals and organizations. During this procedure, Innovation
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present study aims at reviewing researches conducted in the area of determinants of and factors affecting the export performance of textile industry. The tools used by the various researchers and their findings are studied in order to establish the academic contributions made by these studies to the existing body of knowledge, new models developed and also to highlight method adopted or suggested by researchers for conducting researches in the area of export performance of manufacturing industries with
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MANAGEMENT DILEMMA The challenge facing higher education institutions is level of technological entrepreneurship and innovation of first year students in the field of Technological programmes. This phenomenon has put pressure on management of higher education institutions to introduce entrepreneurial mindset and encourage innovation. The research in 2007 undertaken by Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU) of University of Cape Town has shown that 23 percent of students choose qualifications
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study would convey their concerns regarding the managing of time in their work and study. Moreover this study would do well to the working student as a whole. DEFINITION OF TERMS Academe. The academic environment or community; academia. Booming. Having a period of great prosperity or rapid economic growth. NTC(The National Teachers College). The school that the respondents are enrolled. Respondent/s. A person who replies to something, especially one supplying
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COMPREHENSIVE STUDY: Link between ICT growth and economic growth in the Greater China Region Background: As to these days, perhaps the most important enabling technology worldwide: Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). China is not the only fast-growing economy that is making waves around the world. ICT in China’s current economic growth rate is approximately 9 percent annually, which is impressive economically. Its contribution to global GDP growth since 2000 has been almost twice
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