This article analyzes structural changes in the information industries including publishing, broadcasting, film, cable, telephony, software and data processing, and the Internet in the era of "convergence" before and after 1996. The cross-industry network structure was mapped using annual data...

Because of the global increase in the consumption of low-calorie natural gas, and increasing awareness of the mid-to long-term problem with the decrease in the calorific value of natural gas, actions are needed to minimize the problems with gas appliances. Most natural gas engines for small...

Hydrogen-natural gas blends (HCNG) have the advantage of lower emission levels, because of their lean combustion characteristics, compared to a direct injection diesel engine equipped with a high-cost fuel supply system and an aftertreatment system for heavy-duty vehicles. The HCNG engine has...

In line with the economic crisis and rapid socio-demographic changes, the interest in ‘social’ and ‘well-being’ indicators has been revived. Social indicator movements of the 1960s resulted in the establishment of social indicator statistical frameworks; that legacy has remained intact...

This paper is a critical evaluation of Hayek's “Atavism of social justice” thesis, suggesting an alternative explanation of the widespread demands for social justice in contemporary society. It is based on the analysis of the nature of entrepreneurship and its tendency to incite envy. The...

This study attempts to reveal how macroeconomic and technology policies that encompass the opportunity and individual drivers of entrepreneurship explain the dynamics of new firm formation in a country. To do so we rely on the Schumpeterian, industrial organization, and labor economics...