Measurement of competitiveness is – even in a well-defined conceptual frame – more a compromise between available data and the big number of different criteria and objectives. Additionally, in the building of competitiveness indices, many technical problems occur that have not always a...

The development of public services is one of the priorities on the agendas of all policies, both national and European. One of the most recent concerns of the European Commission, as shown in the 2010 Innobarometer, is to find ways and develop strategies to support the innovation in the public...

In the context of the entire world's efforts to start recovering from one of the worst economic crisis, finding the main drivers of growth is increasingly important. The European Commission's new proposal - "Europe 2020"- states innovation as one of these main drivers, and promotes the...

The explanation of investment behaviour in the light of expected utility it meant an important step in the substantiation of the theory regarding investment portofolio. It was demonstrated that the linear form of utility function excludes certain decisive decisions (Allais’s paradox), so that...

The consumption economic theory, which was propounded by Ernest Engel (1821-1896), has been substantially improved over time, by the contributions of the modern economists. However, the extensive themes of the studies about the euro-atlantics populations’ consumption models (as well as...

The use of information and communication technologies in education offers new means of evaluation and examination. e-Testing is a valuable evaluation tool that teachers can use during final exams and students can exploit for self-assessment, in order to g

Nowadays, grace of computing possibilities that electronic computers offer and namely, big memory volume and computing speed, there is the improving of modeling methods, an important role having complex system modeling using simulation techniques. These o

Innovation and competitiveness are the main vectors of social-economic progress of every country. Starting from this general context and considering the particular context wherein Romania is, which strongly impose the growth of economic competitiveness for realize the convergence to EU...

Technical line balancing is a mean of economic efficiency increasing of some industrial activities. Essentially, to balance a technical line means to organize human operator's activity, to establish manufacturing flux, to project the line so to minimize equipments and operators' pause time,...

Relation between mathematics and economic activity has a dual character: mathematics feed from economic and social environment through different kinds while economic sciences, including leading science, are mathematized in a fast rhythm. Under the conditions of the dynamic of contemporary...