Global corporations and companies with international portfolios increasingly concentrate their activities not only on the international expansion of their products or services and global diversifi cation of their capital portfolios, but also on an effective integration in the global value chain...

The article characterizes current ideas on this issue and defines a global paradigm of a managerial system on the principle of living organisms. Using Kuhn's theory of science development, the article characterizes controversial attitudes to knowledge economy and defines a global paradigm for a...

Zabezpečenie obrany patrí medzi základné úlohy každého štátu. Zároveň patrí aj k najnákladnejším ekonomickým činnostiam štátu, pretože na plnenie uvedených úloh vynakladá štát časť svojich ľudských, materiálnych a finančných zdrojov. Obmedzené a vzácne...

Slovakia ranked to the poorest innovation performers in the EU 25 area in early 2000s. While the country's economics was booming due to high influx of foreign investment, there was real danger that Slovakia would convert to the "greatest assembly line" in Europe, with little own innovation...

The article deals with monitoring the use of financial resources from EU Structural Funds to support innovative activities in the Slovak Republic, the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary not only in the present, but also in the previous programming period (2000-2006). It describes the areas to...

New ways of strategic approach are available due to information technologies. New dimensions in business experiments are possible. Company can now meet its research needs much more efficient. It takes less money and less time to come to similar results with business experiments as with...

In dynamic business environment, foresight may be considered as a main instrument for strategic science and technology planning for companies, industrial sectors, regions or countries. Today none of the other available future studies can offer better synergies for strategic science and...