34 Scale-up SG likewise begins with a “strategize” phase; over four months, companies work to align on growth priorities and develop and commit to a road map for growth and targets.35In Canada, the Growth Driver Program run by the government-owned Business Development Ban...
A vertical scale in each graph shows the developmental rate from 1-cell embryos to 8-cell embryos/morulae at 2.5 d.p.c. (A, C), from 8-cell embryos to blastocysts at 4.5 d.p.c. (B, E), or from hatched blastocysts at 5.5 d.p.c. (C, F). Results are shown as the mean %...
One stone stirred up thousands of waves, and the closure of three enterprises caused concern among all parties. The remarks on the survival of SMEs in Wenzhou caused by the breakup of capital chain and the recurrence of large-scale collapse during the financial crisis were once again circulated ...
Using the above equation, each item is measured over a five-year period and uses a five-year average ratio. The values are then classified into years and industries and form five groups, where the lowest value is 1 and highest is 5. Since capital intensity is likely to be high for a ...
In the first step, potential users (ports) shall read the indication of different level (or penetration) following the well-known Likert scale. Here, we use fixed levels for scaling importance of environmental and digital indicators, using ordinal data and its interpretation in the following way:...
Asset turnover is the ratio of total sales to average assets, and it's used to help investors figure out how effectively a company is using its assets to create revenue.
Compact signalling devices for the automotive, medical and electronics industries Demand for compact, energy-efficient acoustic signal transducers is growing with increasing miniaturisation and progress in the automotive, medical and electronics industries. Products must not only work rel...
an annual turnover of less than €50 million (52.65 million USDFootnote1), and a total balance sheet of less than €43 million (45.3 million USD). Similarly, the OECD (OECD,2005) established an upper limit of 250 employees. Both Europe’s and the OECD’s definitions classify SMEs as mi...
automated production should dominate in the future—and turn the country into an “industrial superpower” In the Made in China 2025 strategy, the government has identified ten industries in which it wants to form leading Chinese global companies among which also are high-end automation, robotics,...
implement collective learning processes and reduce business uncertainty, benefiting from economies of scale without bearing the disadvantages of large size (Watson2007,2011; Li et al.2015); achieve better economic performance (increased turnover and investments, reduction in costs and operational risk);...