This paper presents the results of a study conducted in manufacturing firms operating in the electrical and electronic sectors in Quebec. It investigates the extent to which environmental concerns are integrated into corporate strategy and the entire product development stages. Special attention...

Since the mid 70's, new forms of organizations have emerged in networks industries. The main purpose for changes is to find out a model wich enables the best efficiency in industries wich are not fully ruled by competition. This paper deals with the organization of electricity and natural gas...

This discussion paper aims to propose an indicator of emerging technological themes. The development of such indicator is justified due to the need to guide the Brazilian federal government in emerging discussions on the field of technological policy. In reality, the wide range of information...

Spanish abstract. Con esta investigación se planteó establecer las herramientas informativas para la vigilancia tecnológica en diseños curriculares de universidades públicas, para lo cual se analizaron las bases de datos, la cienciometría y SERBILUZ en el Núcleo Técnico de la Universidad...

Spanish abstract. Con esta investigación se planteó establecer las herramientas informativas para la vigilancia tecnológica en diseños curriculares de universidades públicas, para lo cual se analizaron las bases de datos, la cienciometría y SERBILUZ en el Núcleo Técnico de la Universidad...

This discussion paper aims to propose an indicator of emerging technological themes. The development of such indicator is justified due to the need to guide the Brazilian federal government in emerging discussions on the field of technological policy. In reality, the wide range of information...

Purpose – Aims to provide a new wireless design for utility management and billing systems using GSM networks that can be used by large utility sites. Design/methodology/approach – Traditional energy and water meters are replaced or enhanced to produce digital readings. A hardware interface...

Purpose – This study attempts to re‐investigate the electricity consumption function for Malaysia through the cointegration and causality analyses over the period 1970 to 2005. Design/methodology/approach – The study employed the bounds‐testing procedure for cointegration to examine the...

Purpose – This paper set out to use an autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (ARCH)‐type model to capture the time‐varying conditional variance of Alberta electricity prices. This is of major importance in forecasting, since ARCH‐type models allow the conditional variance to...

Purpose – The most problematic area of any carbon policy debate is the treatment of incumbent CO2 intensive coal‐fired electricity generators. Policy applied to the electricity sector is rarely well guided by macroeconomic theory and modeling alone, especially in the case of carbon where the...