This is the third edition of the KIET Korean defense industry statistics and competitiveness report in 2014. The main purpose of this report is to establish the basis of the Korean defense industrial statistics with an actual survey from 2008 to 2013. Moreover, it also includes the defense...

Platinum counter electrodes in DSSC are generally prepared by thermal reduction method. Poor control over Pt particle size, agglomeration and bad adhesion to the transparent conducting substrate, are some of the shortcomings affecting overall efficiency of the cell. In order to achieve better...

In the relentless pursuit of urban prosperity and sustainability, cities worldwide are undergoing transformative changes, spurred by the Fourth Industrial Revolution and digital transformation(DX). At the forefront of this evolution are Smart Cities, which leverage cutting-edge information and...

In almost all the industrial sectors in Italy, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are well developed. Indigenous SMEs that have been rooted in the region for a long time make up the power and backbone of Italy’s regional industries. In particular, micro enterprises with fewer than 10...

Countries undergoing economic transition in the early 1990s faced enormous challenges in the process of shifting from a centrally-planned economic system toward a market-based economy. During the transition period, large state sectors of the former Socialist countries in the Eastern bloc...

Today, despite the needs of more credible valuation models in defense research and development (R&D), defense decision makers mainly focus on previous cost and NPV-based approaches to evaluate them. Defense R&D projects should be considered as a sequential compound real option due to its...