The international construction industry is highly competitive with competition expected to further intensify. However, the market remains essentially heterogeneous with contractors able to express aspects of competitive advantage. This research is concerned with the nature and application

incumbent firms, cost reduction effort, and entry of new firms. The model also generates an endogenous demand for competition-enhancing or retarding policies arising from cost heterogeneity, and we demonstrate the possibility of a ‘low-competition ’ political economy trap. Simulations of the model

centrality measures. A. Fund Characteristics 11 Many VCs specialize in a particular industry, and important performance drivers such as investment opportunities and competition for deal flow likely vary across industries. Venture Economics does not identify which industry a fund specializes in

together into a synergistic set establishes the paradigm. Thus, energy for the Industrial Paradigm, Information/communication technologies (including genetic engineering) for the Informational Paradigm. Technology as a material tool, and meaning as symbolic construction, through relationships of production

process. We then consider the feedback an unexpected event, namely the spectacular growth of Internet, has on the generic competition policy's framework. The case of broadband access illustrates the possible emergence of new public social objective (digital divide, information society) aside

the start to the digital age. Besides, multilingualism adds specific costs to all media distribution schemes and inhibits economies of scale in producing or marketing the media across Europe. In order to resist competition from the monolingual United States, the challenge of Europe is to build up

The construction industry is a vital part of a nation’s economy contributing up to 10 percent of GDP. The industry is large and fragmented and often has not been a high priority for national governments. While this in itself is not a problem, it leaves the industry vulnerable in a rapidly changing

-OECD governments, as well as from the research community. Those from industry and other institutions involved with emissions trading, joint implementation and clean development mechanism projects such as the European Commission and the World Bank were also represented. The OECD Global Forums are one of the two

The rapid deployment of web technologies delivers information from diverse sources in the world of digital business in a unified way. Within the construction industry the demand for investments in the digital dimension has raised very fast indicating a trend towards on-line collaboration services

which typify the key stages in the implementation of a construction project and will incorporate a range of authentic input and that can be reached via internet and digital media. The intangible outcomes will be enhancement of vocational language skills and working culture awareness in European