Protection as costs of living rise: A question of affordability and value? It’s no secret that the costs of living in the UK are rising, with people across the country, facing growing financial uncertainty. Recently the ONS reported that 89%[1] of adults in the UK have seen a rise in...
Assuming that the need for basic services such as finance, energy and healthcare exists, there are three main reasons for market failure from the point of view of buyers: lack of awareness, lack of accessibility and lack of affordability (see Prahalad2010; Anderson and Markides2007; Anderson e...
The paper [120] maintains that e-governance provokes the growth of energy efficiency (increasing the share of renewable energy; declining the gaps in accessing electricity; increasing affordability for clean energy for households) through the development of smart cities. Thus, the research [87] ...
Among the types of innovation that can be found are materials and products that are inexpensive, durable, repairable, reusable, recyclable, and biodegradable, with greater affordability and lower environmental impact [5]. Integrating sustainability as part of a company’s corporate, competitive, and ...
For example, the four parameters of financial service penetration, availability, practicability, and affordability were created by Liu et al. (2018) based on Chinese context [17]. Known as the process of offering suitable financial services to low-income and underprivileged populations at a fair ...
The combination of Artificial Intelligence and IoT technologies, the so-called AIoT, is expected to contribute to the sustainability of public and private buildings, particularly in terms of energy management, indoor comfort, as well as in safety and sec