Recently, it has been suggested that innovation based competitiveness, at the level of the enterprise, will yield more long term sustainable competitiveness than traditional cost based competitiveness.

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First is the development of a competition culture an understanding by the public of the benefits of competition and broad based support for a strong competition policy.

B. Making alternative energy sources competitive

This may ultimately lead to exclusion of existing competitors from competition in the two liquor markets.

Progress towards improving the competitiveness of the least developed countries was insignificant.

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has wind at fast enough speeds to be cost competitive.

B. Making alternative energy sources competitive 9 12

It is however a commercially competitive energy carrier, with oil being its main competitor.

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He urged LDCs to strive to enhance their competitiveness rather than seek compensation.

Fast food. With the fast food industry you know, it's very competitive.

The race for national competitiveness is every bit as fierce as the competition among companies in the marketplace. Countries compete for investment, talent, growth, and opportunity in a globalized world, and those that are pushed out of the running surrender the greatest prize of all human development, prosperity, and happiness for their people.

They pointed to the historical adaptability of competition policies, and argued that competition advocacy would be difficult to conceive in the absence of an autonomous competition agency.

In other words, the relationship between internationalization and firm competitiveness is two way in the sense that the former increases the latter and the latter leads to the former.

programmes on competition law and policy

What is particularly lacking in terms of raising domestic competition and increasing the competitiveness of economies in transition is a sufficient number of privately owned medium sized enterprises capable of growing and competing not only in domestic markets but also in foreign markets.

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Renewable energy Materials science projects.

6. The representative of Tunisia, summarizing recent developments in competition law and policy in his country, said that the scope of application of the law had been extended, the competition authority s structures and powers had been consolidated and implementing regulations had been adopted.

Progress in materials science has become one of the most powerful weapons in worldwide industrial competitiveness.

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To increase businesses' competitiveness and innovation.

1. Technological capacity building and competitiveness

He stressed the importance of creating competitive markets in strengthening the competitiveness of enterprises in host economies, and in ensuring maximum efficiency and consumer welfare.

Children became more competent, and less helpless.

No competition.

Economies of scale enabled the United States to become the most competitive supplier, offering inexpensive and attractive products.

4. It should be recognized that in its widest sense, competition means survival of the fittest indeed, it has been said that competition kills competition .

LDCs' comparative advantage is in exports of labour intensive services.

The most important way to achieve both objectives is to increase exports by strengthening US competitiveness. But where will increased competitiveness come from?

According to calculations, the most competitive air conditioning equipment from the United States could save at least 10 per cent over equipment from other countries.

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B. Competitiveness and the role of innovation

So, there is a huge competitive argument about sustaining the capacity for open source and consumer driven innovation, because it's one of the greatest competitive levers against monopoly.

In a monetary union, there are only two ways to close a competitiveness gap between countries transfers from the more competitive to the less competitive, or internal devaluation, which means real wage cuts.

America s declining competitiveness as an attractive place to locate production and employment.

The Australia Thailand agreement, for instance, contains a definition of the anti competitive practices to be proscribed these include business conduct or transactions that adversely affect competition, such as anti competitive horizontal arrangements between competitors misuse of market power, including predatory pricing anti competitive vertical arrangements and anti competitive mergers and acquisitions.

The representative of Mexico emphasized that economic evidence demonstrated the benefits of competition for competitiveness.

Raising the quality, competitiveness and innovation of businesses.

In June 1996, a new competition law, which took into account the most modern approaches to competition policy, had been enacted.

Finally, international competition helped spread the benefits of the globalization process.