communication technology (ICT) can be used to support business activity and overcome challenges specific to women, (ii) the barriers …

partnership on South–South cooperation. One of the priority topics for this inter-institutional cooperation is inclusive business … grant-financed technical assistance projects. ADB recently created its Inclusive Business Initiative to provide specific … the pursuit of inclusive business. It is part of the IDB–ADB cooperation on knowledge exchange between the two regional …

the 2002 and 2007 surveys and shows that, while the business environment has improved since 2002, doing business in Papua … New Guinea remains extremely challenging. Continued concerted efforts to improve the business environment will help …

information and communication technologies (ICTs) is essential to business development and growth. This study assesses the need …, policy and leadership coordination, financial services, business development support, capacity building and use promotion …

partly determined by how their business models interact with the environment to produce offerings with added value. This … chapter contributes to the reflection on Catalonia's competitiveness by using the business model concept to highlight the need … to adapt business models to new realities in the Catalan environment. Catalan firms have made little effort to …

look at a key ingredient of this driver for Catalonia: the link between science and business. We argue that the Catalan … innovation system faces three important challenges in order to better connect science to business: 1) the need for a sufficient … science and business, i.e., science needs different channels to connect with business and requires coordinated efforts between …

to consider changes in its business model. We consider four alternative business models, two pure models (subscription …-sponsored rival often entails business model reconfigurations, a phenomenon that we dub "competing through business models." We also … than a mixed,business model because of cannibalization and endogenous vertical differentiation concerns. We discuss how our …