scholarly journals Increasing Economic Competitiveness through the Contribution of Digitalization

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-42
Author(s):  
Anisoara – Ionela DIACONU ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Competitiveness

How does market size affect Kosovo economic competitiveness?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Armend Muja ◽  
Zef Dedaj ◽  
Kaltrina Bunjaku
Keyword(s):  
Market Size ◽  
Economic Competitiveness

scholarly journals Transcending borders in higher education: Internationalisation policies in Sweden

2021 ◽  
pp. 147490412098838
Author(s):  
Nafsika Alexiadou ◽  
Linda Rönnberg
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
European Policy ◽  
Policy Objective ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Economic Competitiveness ◽  
Policy Ideas ◽  
The World ◽  
Internationalisation Strategy ◽  
Internationalisation Strategies

This article examines the national and European policy contexts that shaped the Swedish internationalisation agenda in higher education since 2000, the policy ideas that were mobilised to promote it, and the national priorities that steered higher education debates. The analysis highlights how domestic and European policy priorities, as well as discourses around increasing global economic reach and building solidarity across the world, have produced an internationalisation strategy that is distinctly ‘national’. Drawing on the analysis of the most recent internationalisation strategies we argue that the particular Swedish approach to internationalisation has its ideational foundations in viewing higher education as a political instrument to promote social mobility and justice, as well as a means to develop economic competitiveness and employability capacity. In addition, internationalisation has been used to legitimise national reform goals, but also as a policy objective on its own with the ambition to position Sweden as a competitive knowledge nation in a global context.

scholarly journals Renewable fatty acid ester production in Clostridium

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Feng ◽  
Jie Zhang ◽  
Yuechao Ma ◽  
Yiming Feng ◽  
Shangjun Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Butyl Acetate ◽  
Energy Crisis ◽  
Butyl Butyrate ◽  
Fossil Energy ◽  
Renewable Chemicals ◽  
Economic Competitiveness ◽  
End Products ◽  
Microbial Strains ◽  
Host Strains ◽  
Solventogenic Clostridia

AbstractBioproduction of renewable chemicals is considered as an urgent solution for fossil energy crisis. However, despite tremendous efforts, it is still challenging to generate microbial strains that can produce target biochemical to high levels. Here, we report an example of biosynthesis of high-value and easy-recoverable derivatives built upon natural microbial pathways, leading to improvement in bioproduction efficiency. By leveraging pathways in solventogenic clostridia for co-producing acyl-CoAs, acids and alcohols as precursors, through rational screening for host strains and enzymes, systematic metabolic engineering-including elimination of putative prophages, we develop strains that can produce 20.3 g/L butyl acetate and 1.6 g/L butyl butyrate. Techno-economic analysis results suggest the economic competitiveness of our developed bioprocess. Our principles of selecting the most appropriate host for specific bioproduction and engineering microbial chassis to produce high-value and easy-separable end products may be applicable to other bioprocesses.

scholarly journals The Measurement of Innovation Efficiency of Chinese High-tech Industry Using Data Envelopment Analysis

2015 ◽  
Vol 65 (s2) ◽  
pp. 101-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ling Jiang ◽  
Yunyu Jiang ◽  
Zhijun Wu ◽  
Dongsheng Liao ◽  
Runfa Xu
Keyword(s):  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
Technical Efficiency ◽  
Environmental Variables ◽  
Scale Efficiency ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
High Tech Industry ◽  
Economic Competitiveness ◽  
Development Level ◽  
Using Data

In the era of knowledge economy, a country’s economic competitiveness depends largely on the development level of high-tech industry. This paper evaluates the efficiency of China’s high-tech industry in 31 provinces in 2012 with data envelopment analysis. The empirical results are summarized as following. Firstly, when the effects of exogenous environmental variables are not controlled, the comprehensive technical efficiency of 31 provinces will be overestimated, the pure technical efficiency will be underestimated, and the scale efficiency value will be overestimated. Secondly, after eliminating the environmental impact, the comprehensive technical efficiency of 31 provinces with the average of 0.395 is rather low, due to the low scale efficiency.

Study on the Ground-Source Heat Pump with Properties of Thermal Dynamics Used in Heating and Air Conditioning by Economic Analysis

2012 ◽  
Vol 252 ◽  
pp. 433-437
Author(s):  
Zhi Yang Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Heat Pump ◽  
Air Conditioning ◽  
Surface Soil ◽  
Ground Source Heat Pump ◽  
Thermal Dynamics ◽  
Air Conditioning System ◽  
Economic Competitiveness ◽  
Heating And Cooling ◽  
Ground Source

The ground-source heat pump is a system which takes the shallow surface soil energy as the source of heating and cooling. The temperature of ground source is relatively stable throughout the year, which makes the ground-source heat pump have the higher operation efficiency compared with the traditional air-conditioning system.Study on the ground-source heat pump with properties of thermal dynamics used in heating and air comditioning by ecomomic analysis is still an important issue. In this paper, the ground-source heat pump and the traditional heating and air-conditioning system have been compared in terms of their economic competitiveness. Firstly, it is required to compare the ground-source heat pump with the traditional heating method in terms of the heating economy. Afterwards, it is necessary to compare the ground-source heat pump with the conventional electric refrigeration in terms of the air-conditioning economy. Finally, it is needed to conduct the comprehensive and economic analysis for the ground-source heat pump and the boilers and air conditioning, which includes four programs.

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