Pathways from discovery to commercialisation: using web sources to track small and medium-sized enterprise strategies in emerging nanotechnologies

This paper presents results from a pilot study of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) based on a web-scraping and content analysis of current and archived nanotechnology enterprise websites. We use this approach to explore nanotechnology SMEs transitions from discovery to commercialisation and understand how transitions vary by SME characteristics, technology and market sectors. Our findings suggest that although the idealised linear innovation model is present, important instances of divergence exist. Cluster analysis uncovered sectoral differences but even more distinctions based on the age, funding source, and research intensity.     

Measuring and testing the long-term impact of terrorist attacks on the US futures market

This study compares the accuracy and information content of economic forecasts for G7 countries made in the 1990s by the OECD and IMF. The benchmarks for comparison are the average forecasts of private sector economists published by Consensus Economics. With few exceptions, the private sector forecasts are less biased and more accurate in terms of mean absolute error and root mean square error. Formal tests show these differences are statistically significant for forecasts of real growth and production, less so for forecasts of inflation and unemployment. Overall, there appears little information in the OECD and IMF forecasts that could be used to reduce significantly the error in the private sector forecasts.     

Gains From Trade for Nonmaterialists,Environmentalists, and the Overworked

The author proposes an alternative to the traditional definition of the gains from international trade and, hence, an alternative defense of free trade. Rather than showing that free trade allows a country to consume more of all final goods, the author's approach shows that free trade allows a country to consume the same basket of final goods that it would consume in autarchy but at a reduced cost measured in terms of foregone productive resources. Thus, free trade gives a country the option to maintain the same material standard of living that it would have enjoyed in autarchy while enjoying more leisure and using fewer natural resources in production.     

基于语料库的英语搭配错误研究及启示

基于语料库的英语搭配错误研究显示,中国英语学习者由于母语的干扰、对搭配的过度概括、不了解搭配的限制、不能准确理解词义等,往往会选择不恰当或者错误的搭配。英汉搭配词典应设立帮助箱为中国英语学习者提供帮助。     

基于旅游博客和论坛提高旅游产品质量的模型研究

分析了旅游博客和论坛对旅游产业的影响,以及通过软件自动方式使用旅游博客和论坛分析的优势,并给出了实现的步骤,分析了其中的核心问题,给出解决方法,从而为旅游管理者改善旅游产品提供方向。     

基于模具课程的项目教学法的研究与应用

深入分析了工程项目教学法的理论基础、内涵及实施步骤,并以机械专业模具课程为例,在分析模具行业社会需求和课程现状基础上,应用项目驱动教学法对该课程进行教学改革,研究和探索了应用项目教学法进行课程教学改革的具体过程和评价体系,并在机械本科专业试运行,效果良好。     

构建基于MOODLE平台的开放协作式学习模式

开放教育是当前一种新兴的教育形式。为了有效缓解学习过程中"工学矛盾"这一突出问题,文章提出了基于MOODLE平台下的开放协作式学习新模式。首先对这一模式进行分析,然后以ERP原理与应用课程为案例详细介绍了这一新型学习模式。     

入世后我国工业制成品贸易调整成本研究

应用边际产业内贸易指数B指标和产业贸易盒线对入世后我国工业制成品贸易调整成本问题进行实证分析。结果表明:入世后,我国工业制成品贸易中产业内贸易动态趋势以产业间贸易为主,产业内贸易为辅。金融危机之前,产业内贸易的产品种类数量逐渐减少,金融危机之后,该类产品种类数量略有回升。我国以较高产业间贸易为主且处于竞争劣势的20类和总贸易额减少的1类产品的相关产业面临的调整压力更大和调节成本更高。     

关于中国货币政策有效性问题的探讨

开放经济对货币政策运行环境、传导机制、调控手段和目标都产生了重要的影响,使得保持货币政策的有效性变得更加复杂.主要表现为:外部均衡在货币政策中的地位显著提高;利率政策和汇率政策相互影响;货币供给的内生性增强;国际经济渠道在货币政策传导机制中的重要性上升;部分货币政策工具的调节力度有所下降.随着我国对外开放进程的加快,要提高货币政策的有效性,必须加快汇率制度改革,建立市场化的汇率机制;把我国的货币政策中介目标逐渐由货币供给量变为市场利率;加快利率市场化改革;注重利率政策和汇率政策的协调.     

从开放社会维度谈正义的迷失之源

“正义”一词源于柏拉图且对后世政治理论影响深远。柏拉图为了建构没有变化的理想国而主张实行森严的等级制度和个人服从国家的绝对信仰,而这些恰恰是与以平等主义和个人主义为核心的人文主义的正义理念完全相反的,并且他不但从理论建构上曲解了而且从背叛苏格拉底的实践上彻底地践踏了正义,这是正义迷失之源。