A unique business opportunity has been presented to me. I have been invited to create a small business that would initially offer mechanical design services to two main customer segments: automotive and biomedical device companies. My main responsibility is to help frame the small business and...

Seit Ende der 70er Jahre wurde mit dem Realoptionsansatz ein Instrument zur Beurteilung der Vorteilhaftigkeit von Investitionen entwickelt, der es - im Gegensatz zum net present value Ansatz - erlaubt, die sich aus einem Investitionsprojekt ergebenden zukünftigen Handlungsmöglichkeiten...

Companies must be able to adapt and evolve if they wish to survive in the highly competitive marketplace today. Businesses operate with the knowledge that their competitors will inevitably come to the market with a product that changes the basis of competition. The ability to change and adapt...

Any firm successfully operation is bound up with investment. Therefore author shortly reviews theorethical models of investment return and measurement of the risk. At the same time the analysis of various author opinions, how useful these models are in Lithuania, was made. In the second part of...

Research and innovation activities from universities and public research institutes (PRIs) contribute to economic growth in significant ways. Given the hefty investment in R&D in both public and private sectors, it is essential for policy makers to have meaningful, relevant and practical metrics...

While optimal forest harvesting regulations (regional forest regeneration schedules) have been established using the linear programming technique, its modeling restriction is still a challenge in practice. In this study, we developed an alternative framework for establishing an optimal forest...

Purpose – Automated body condition scoring (BCS) through extraction of information from digital images has been demonstrated to be feasible; and commercial technologies are being developed. The primary objective of this research was to identify the factors that influence the potential...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present AgProfit™ as a tool for users to assess economic risks associated with adoption of new technologies or production practices in production agriculture. Design/methodology/approach – This paper presents the AgProfit™ software program, its...

A cow that fails to conceive must either be kept for a year without revenue or replaced by a bred heifer. This choice is a unique case of comparing investments with different economic lives because the potential replacement asset is just a newer version of the old asset. In this study, a net...

The Crop Profitability Analysis (CPA) computer program is designed to help agricultural producers make long‐run cropping decisions. CPA uses previously generated enterprise budgets to establish a base from which producers can analyze the potential profitability of perennial crops with...