What is the diffrence between the term "investment climate of the territory" and the term "competitiveness of the territory"
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Is it a good area to get in.\nHow much competition in this area -
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What is the Diamond Model? Description\n\nThe Diamond Model of Michael Porter for the competitive advantage of Nations offers a model that can help understand the comparative position of a nation in global competition. The model can also be used for major geographic regions.\n\n \nTraditional country advantages\n\nTraditionally, economic theory mentions the following factors for comparative advantage for regions or countries:\n\n   1. Land\n   2. Location\n   3. Natural resources (minerals, energy)\n   4. Labor, and\n   5. Local population size.\n\nBecause these 5 factors can hardly be influenced, this fits in a rather passive (inherited) view regarding national economic opportunity.\n\n \nClusters\n\nPorter says that sustained industrial growth has hardly ever been built on above mentioned basic inherited factors. Abundance of such factors may actually undermine competitive advantage! He introduces a concept called "clusters" or groups of interconnected firms, suppliers, related industries, and institutions, that arise in certain locations.\n\n \n\nThese clusters are geographic concentrations of interconnected companies, specialized suppliers, service providers, and associated institutions in a particular field. They grow on locations where enough resources and competences amass and reach a critical threshold, giving it a key position in a given economic branch of activity, with a decisive sustainable competitive advantage over others places, or even a world supremacy in that field. Porter says clusters can influence competition in three ways:\n\n    * They can increase the productivity of the companies in the cluster.\n    * They can drive innovation in the field.\n    * They can stimulate new businesses in the field.\n\nSome well-known examples of Clusters are USA/Silicon Valley (computers), Netherlands/Rotterdam (logistics), India/Bangalore (software outsourcing), USA/Hollywood (movies), France/Paris (fashion).\n\n \n\nAccording to Porter, as a rule competitive advantage of nations is the outcome of 4 interlinked advanced factors and activities in and between companies in these clusters. These can be influenced in a pro-active way by government.
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similar to previous question...\n\n- business opportunities in EU\n- regulations, tax laws\n- tax incentives, zoning laws\n- place opportunities\n- bilateral agreements etc
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tout à fait, il y a eu de grosse erreur d'arbitrage durant la compétition. Les décisions seront sans appel avec preuves à l'appui. La seule différence c'est qu'au foot, l'attente sera moins longue
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Basically on price or quality. Beyond that their are many strategies they use to compete, like marketing (brand advertising), technology, geography etc. Competitors try to create barriers to slow competitive threats entering their market. They can create network externalities that are difficult to mimick or recreate.
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» Environment - The complex of social and cultural conditions that affect an individual or community. In other words, the abiotic and biotic conditions that surround a living being.\n\n» Development - the process of changing and becoming larger, stronger, or more impressive, successful, or advanced, or of causing somebody or something to change in this way is development.\n\n¤ so, from here, we can see it clearly that, environment is what that surrounds us. and there can be development of those which surrounds us. for example, buildings are part of the environment,and there can be a development in the building that is there can be a development of one of the environment elements.\n so we should develop our environment in such a way that will be helpful for long term,not just for current generation but also for future generation. Our generation should develop the environment in extent that will be helpful for environment sustainability that is ability of a system to sustain longer,instead of getting simply some early profits.
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Strategy is the large scale goal you wish to accomplish (e.g. Become a Millionaire).  Tactics are the individual steps you are going to take to achieve that goal (e.g. Got to College, Study Chemistry, Invent something cool, marry money, etc..).\n\nThankx.
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Sustainable competitive advantage is a way of saying an investor's long-term investment matches a companies long-term position.  By considering whether a position is sustainable, strategic theory asks a person to consider the five forces of strategic position and see what's likely going to be a strong foundation.  \n\nBecause strategy is irreversible by definition, it ought to be created with utmost care and conviction.  \n\nExamples of sustainable competitive advantage may be:\n  -- Google's market position\n  -- IDEO's innovation model\n  -- GE's #1 or #2 position in every market they compete in\n      -- or their six-sigma process\n  -- Union Pacific's control of rights of way in urban areas\n  -- NASA's experience and technology set in space exploration\n\nMichael Porter's Competitive Advantage is still the seminal work on the whole area of thought.  You'll also find good information published by the big-three strategy consultancies: McKinsey, Bain, and Boston Consulting Group.  Finally, Harvard Business Press puts out the best strategy case studies and articles in the industry.\n\nIncidentally, Boston Consulting Group basically invented strategy when they first studies learning curves in the aviation industry a very long time ago.  They discovered that the learning curve was 1) real, 2) predictable, and 3) sustainable.  So, if it cost me $5 to manufacture an airplane part for the first part, how long until it cost only 50 cents, and how should I set prices so that others can't afford to come into the market and compete with me?
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Productivity is based on how much is produced in a certain amount of time.\n\nEfficiency is based on materials spent in production. The lesser time, energy materials etc. used to produce the product is higher efficiency.
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Climate may be a factor in the success of a country.  The mid-latitudes tend to have moderate temperatures and well defined growing seasons thus allowing for good agriculture and  livestock conditions.  These provide a reliable food source which can support a larger population.\n\nNorthern and Southern latitudes have very long and cold winters which are not conducive to agriculture although there are some livestock that can handle these conditions (carribou, yaks, etc.)  Converely, the more equatorial latitudes have high temperatures.  Depending on the humidity of the region, this can lead to either desert or jungle conditions.  Deserts are very difficult to grow in due to lack of moisture whereas with jungles, controlling the natural vegetation and keeping it from invading agriculture fields is a near impossible task.  In addition, the tropics have many diseases the thrive in that environment leading to a higher mortality rate.
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Presume u r talking about impact of national policies on telecom industry growth?\nCheck out the growth of china/india etc as compared to high penetration markets like UK/USA. \nThe diff is that of national policies.
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I means competence, the will to compete. It is a japaneze word, and hence you wouldn't find its definition in English dictionaries.
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The two different globes are Geographical and the other political. The geographic globe shows where countries are. The political globe shows their borders and cities etc.
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Climate is more of a long-term, permanent state. For example, a rain forest climate would be wet and warm year-round. Weather is constantly changing; weather includes temporary states like rain or cloudiness. Weather is affected by winds, temperature and humidity.
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I don't think there is a way for you to quantify the quality of a country's climate. The worst climate for one person can be the best for another. It all depends on what kind of climate you want or what climate you've been used to. If you still don't know, ask some people who have been to various parts of the world. As for me, I like countries with tropical climates. They have the right amount of sun and rain, and they only have two seasons.
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access to space is limited. Governing means control for implementation, since few can access hardly anyone is capable of governing the space.
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The problem is more with the question than with your ability to understand. It's vague to the point of being meaningless. I hope the person who asked it isn't, like, in the position to give you a grade or anything.\n\nOf course, government initiatives often influence companies' decisions to set up shop in one place or another. One key way is through infrastructure. Government paves roads, lays water and sewer pipe, and provides other infrastructure-related kinds of services. When these things are more easily available, companies are more likely to move in.\n\nLocal governments also often offer tax incentives to companies that are thinking about moving in -- although, probably not to "secondary industry." But often the biggest companies -- automobile makers who are building a new manufacturing plant -- benefit from government financial incentives. Then, typically, a slew of "secondary" companies move in to provide services related to the big-dog manufacturing plant.