Business and Finance

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Boost Your Product Pipeline With Creative Thinking

Speaking today (Tuesday 31 October) at the White Rose Bioscience Forum in York, Adams encourages companies to consider both their strengths and weaknesses, and…

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Credit cards' insidious effects may pose product liability issue

When issuing loans for cars, home mortgages and other forms of debt, banks conduct a thorough credit screening of applicants. But when the same banks issue…

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Key Challenges for Public Service Leaders: Talent Development Insights

One of the key themes that emerged from the research is the importance of developing the talent of employees working in the public services. Other issues…

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80% of Migrant Workers’ Skills ‘Wasted’ by North West Job Sector

Researchers from the University’s Merseyside Social Inclusion Observatory (MSIO) conducted interviews with migrant workers from Eastern Europe and found that…

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It’s not just rocket science –businesses need many different kinds of knowledge to compete

Outcomes of the Economic and Social Research Council’s Evolution of Business Knowledge (EBK) research programme, that focuses on shifts in the way businesses…

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2006 Economic Sciences Prize Highlights Innovative Research

The Prize in Economic Sciences 2006The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of…

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Five Catalan universities form Europe's first inter-university network of business angels

This agreement between the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, the University of Barcelona, the University of Girona, the Technical University of Catalonia and…

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Patent protection "key to Europe’s knowledge economy"

“If Europe really wants to become the world's leading knowledge economy by 2010, the patent network urgently needs to be developed,” Prof Pompidou told more…

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Solving Germany’s Export Puzzle: The Bazaar Effect Explained

Germany is the world champion in merchandise exports and yet the country suffers from mass unemployment and stagnation. Hans-Werner Sinn’s paper ‘The…

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Stock Analysts Face Consequences for Bad Recommendations

University of Washington Business School researchers have found that investor relations professionals at public companies often give less information to…

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MIT Tool Enhances Cost Estimates for Complex Projects

The bid must bring the project in on time, on budget and meet all the government's requirements. If the bid is too low, the project will miss these markers;…

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Eurex Enhances Derivative Pricing With Markit Dividend Forecasts

Eurex, the world's largest derivatives exchange, and Markit Group Limited (“Markit”), the leading industry source of independent data, portfolio valuations and…

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Clearstream introduces the first ‘Collateral Re-use Service’

This new functionality will be introduced mid October. It will remove a key limitation to the growth of the European market share of triparty repo in that it…

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Fishing Trade Boosts Africa’s Economy and Sustainability

The report draws on research by Dr Arthur Neiland and Dr William Emerson of the UK government-funded Sustainable Fisheries Livelihoods Programme (SFLP). It…

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Service Sector Growth: New Jobs and Opportunities Ahead

FinnSight 2015 is a joint foresight project of Tekes and the Academy of Finland. The core of the foresight project comprised ten expert panels, each of which…

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Impact of Choice on UK Saving Habits: Moneyfacts Insights

The research into the current UK retail deposit market shows that converted building societies have introduced and withdrawn deposit accounts with far greater…

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