Open Research

  • Glossary - Access to finance - Enterprise and Industry
    ... price acceptable to both sides). An often cited example is the lack of venture capital for a young, innovative firm. See also risk capital . European private equity and venture capital association professional standards A set of behavioural principles that define the relationship between limited ... receives cash as the debtors settle their accounts. Fund size The total amount of capital committed by the limited and general ...
    http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/finance/glossary/index_en.htm
  • Green Car Congress: Cellulosic ethanol
    ... of the archives, each topic page now contains only the prior 365 days of content. Access to older stories is now solely through the Monthly Archive pages or the site ... to hydrolyze cellulose into fermentable sugars and also ferment the sugars to ethanol—access to the cellulosic constituents. More... | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0) President Obama Establishes Biofuels Interagency Working Group; Push ...
    http://www.greencarcongress.com/cellulosic_ethanol/
  • Useful links - Access to finance - Enterprise and Industry
    ... wide range of services to SMEs, entrepreneurs and others helping them to access market information, overcome legal obstacles and identify potential business partners across Europe, including innovation support and transnational technology transfer services. Enterprise Finance Index The Enterprise Finance ... European Commission portal provides information on EU policies, programmes and initiatives to help SMEs. European Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (EVCA) The European Venture Capital
    http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/finance/links/index_en.htm
  • Annual Report 2003
    ... making fast progress. Cornerstones of the range of financing offered by KfW Mittelstandsbank are debt capital, mezzanine capital, equity capital and consulting: Its “Unternehmerkredit,” or entrepreneurial loan, which was already launched on September 1, 2003, is the ... 2004, the product family “Unternehmerkapital” will be avail- able in the area of mezzanine capital. Business founders, young growth companies and established SMEs can then apply for long-term subordinate loans ... ...
    http://www.kfw.de/DE_Home/Service/Download_Center/Finanzpublikationen/PDF_Dokumente_Berichte_etc./2_Jahresberichte/Jahresbericht_03_E.pdf
  • 20 Minuten Online - Madoffs gesammelte Opfer: Die Liste - News
    ... A. UBS AG Schweizer Bank Verlust: k. A. Neue Privat Bank Schweizer Bank Verlust: 5,000,000 Access International Advisors Investorenfirma Verlust: 1,400,000,000 Banque Benedict Hentsch & Cie. SA Schweizer Privatbank Verlust: 48,000,000 ... A. EIM SA Investment-Manager Verlust: 230,000,000 Fairfield Greenwich Advisors Investment-Manager Verlust: 7,500,000,000 Tremont Capital Management Anlagefirma Verlust: 3,300,000,000 Maxam Capital Management Anlagefirma Verlust: k. A. Ascot Partners Hedge-Fund Verlust: 1,800,000,000 Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC Britische Bank Verlust: 612,260 ...
    http://www.20min.ch/finance/news/story/10513502
  • ESF - News and Events
    ... Regulations Other EU funds Library Videos Fields of activity Workers and new skills Businesses undergoing change Access to employment and social inclusion Education and training Women and jobs Fighting ... Campania region Scottish ESF funds training for butchers Greek employment ministry signs agreement to fund social partners The ESF in Romania launches a new project to support the ... German Federal ESF programme launches new scheme to improve the innovative potential of human ...
    http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/esf/news/index_en.htm
  • Internet Public Library: Finance
    ... paying for college. Money Hunter http://www.moneyhunter.com/ Money Hunt Properties is a commercial venture capital broker which has provided a downloadable business plan for use in any word processing ... equity issues, warrants, units, American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), and Direct Participation Programs (DPPs). The OTCBB: provides access to more than 6,500 securities; includes more than 400 participating Market Makers; electronically transmits real-time quote ... 8 categories -- introduction to financial management, valuation, tools of financial analysis and planning, working capital
    http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/bus35.00.00/
  • Feminist Majority Foundation
    ... on environmentally sensitive and sustainable development; Ending poverty and eliminating economic disparities and inequitable access to resources; Creating a culture of peace and rejecting the glorification ...
    http://www.feminist.org/other/98equalityact/declarationofsentiments.html
  • Climate Insurance as part of a Post-Kyoto Adaptation Strategy
    DISCUSSION PAPER CLIMATE INSURANCE AS PART OF A POST-KYOTO ADAPTATION STRATEGY Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer, Christoph Bals and Reinhard Mechler 2 Germanwatch and IIASA Abstract The Bali Action Plan specifically calls for “consideration of risk sharing and transfer mechanisms, such as insurance” as a means to address loss and damage in developing countries particularly vulnerable to climate change. This paper examines the case for insurance mechanisms by addressing two fundamental ...
    http://www.germanwatch.org/klima/insur08.pdf
  • Highlights From This Year?s Global Technology Symposium
    ... ve included in video below. During a panel titled “Founders of Silicon Valley Venture Capital”, which included Reid Dennis (Institutional Venture Partners), Bill Draper (Draper Richards L.P.), Pitch Johnson (Asset Management Company), and Ann Winblad (Hummer Winblad), the attitude ... plus there is no money available from banks right now even for businesses that have good DUNS D&B partners and credit lines. The startup I am organizing this year to challenge existing internet ... ...
    http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/03/highlights-from-this-years-global-technology-symposium/
  • The Importance Of A Competitive Search Market
    ... building a business in an established market requires resources that most new startups can’t realistically access. And if the market consolidates further, competing will become that much harder. There’s a ... to honest is the fact that Yahoo and Microsoft will occasionally compete for those partners. Take that away, and Google will go back to keeping the majority of ... here : Next Post Previous Post Responses Ryan Stewart - Rich Internet Application Mountaineer May 25th, 2008 at 4:39 am p2p ...
    http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/25/the-importance-of-a-competitive-search-market/
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    ... levels – Global, European and National and in all financial sectors. We must work with our partners to converge towards high global standards, through the IMF, FSF, the Basel committee and ... standards will only be effective and lasting if the European Union, with the biggest capital markets in the world, has a strong and integrated European system of ... and availability of credit; household budgets; mortgages; pensions; big and small company financing; far more restricted ...
    http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/finances/docs/de_larosiere_report_en.pdf
  • Australia - Commonwealth of Australia - Country Profile - Dreamtime land - Down Under - visitors gui
    ... view of Australia. Google Earth Canberra Zoomable map and satellite view of Australia's capital city. Google Earth Sydney Zoomable map and satellite view of Australia's most populous city. Google ... information on Broome one of the last great-unexplored wilderness areas Australia's. City Guides Canberra National Capital Authority. Adelaide Official website of the capital city of South Australia. Alice Springs Community Portal site. Brisbane Capital of Queensland. Darwin Darwin City, capital
    http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/australia.htm
  • Third Quarterly Report 2006, english
    ... Innovation Programme, which was launched at the end of last year and offers mezzanine capital in the form of subordinated loans for innovation projects. With commitments of ... 0.2 billion, equity finance roughly attained last year’s level. 2 3 Microfinance Fund Germany started. The access to micro-loans causes particular problems because loans to business founders and young enterprises ... the KfW Student Loan provided on the KfW website www.kfw-foerderbank.de, around 1,750 sales ...
    http://www.kfw.de/DE_Home/Service/Download_Center/Finanzpublikationen/PDF_Dokumente_Berichte_etc./5_Quartalsberichte/3._Quartal/3__Quartalsbericht_2006_e.pdf
  • No. 23
    ... activity. In many countries fresh water availability is approaching crisis point. 1.3 billion people do not have access to clean water and it is estimated that five million die annually from diseases caused by ... poverty. 1.3 billion people live on less than 1 US dollar per day; 2.6 billion do not have access to basic sanitation. It is estimated that three quarters of a billion people not receive ... for decision-making. It calls for a stronger role for non-governmental organisations as ...
    http://www.fig.net/pub/figpub/pub23/figpub23.htm
  • American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
    ... Award Recipients 2005 Award Recipients 2004 Award Recipients Professional Achievement Awards Certified Professional Search Education Awards and Scholarships Partners in Education Career Brochure ISPRS Standards News & Advocacy Press Releases NCEES Materials 10 Year Industry Forecast Satellite ...
    http://www.asprs.org/meetings/calendar.html
  • No. 42
    ... the future contribution to informal settlements, the Working Group’s audience are both its external Strategic Partners, its own internal Professionals Members as well as Professionals within the wider built environment. The statement ... implementation and management capacities on the part of local governments and their partners. It is a challenge that calls for a variety of responses, but particularly ...
    http://www.fig.net/pub/figpub/pub42/figpub42.htm
  • Microsoft Word - tallinguide1.doc
    1 United Nations General Assembly A/RES/44/70 Distr. GENERAL 8 December 1989 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH Implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons and the United Nations Decade of Disabled Persons The General Assembly, Recalling all its relevant resolutions, including resolution 37/52 of 3 December 1982, by which it adopted the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons,and resolution 37/53 of 3 December 1982, in which it, ...
    http://www.wwda.org.au/tallinguide1.pdf
  • Green Car Congress: Brazil
    ... of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and other partners. More... | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0) Monsanto Acquires Brazilian Sugarcane Breeding and Genomics Companies for $290M November ... focused on developing biotech traits primarily for sugarcane. More... | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0) SEKAB and Brazilian Partners To Introduce “Verified Sustainable Ethanol” May 26, 2008 The Swedish company SEKAB, which delivers about 90 ... pay around R$100 million (US$59.8 million) for the 50%, subject to working ...
    http://www.greencarcongress.com/brazil/
  • Building effective institutional frameworks to support European pharmacogenetic research: an interna
    Int. J. of Biotechnology , Vol.10, No. 6, 2008 1 Copyright © 2008Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. 1 Building effective institutional frameworks to support European 1 pharmacogenetic research: an international empirical analysis 2 3 Sibylle Gaisser*, Marieke Dreiling, Juliane Hartig, Michael M. Hopkins, 4 Jim Ryan, Dolores Ibarreta 5 6 *Corresponding Author: 7 Fraunhofer Institute Systems and Innovation Research, Breslauer Str. 48, 8 76139 Karlsruhe, Germany, email: Sibylle.Gaisser@isi.fraunhofer.de 9 10 Key Words 11 stakeholders; research focus; public-private collaboration; institutional 12 frameworks; regulation; interdisciplinarity; pharmacogenetics; pharmaco-13 genomics; mapping, knowledge transfer, technology ...
    http://www.isi.fhg.de/publ/downloads/isi08p157/Gaisser-InstitutionalFrameworks-to-support-PGx-research.pdf
  • Feminist Campus Activism Online: Feminist Student Activist Chat
    ... debts when it becomes clear that the infrastructures in those countries are so bankcrupt that foreign capital investment and use of developing country labor to milk that capital may no longer be possible. I think in the case of Africa, the HIV ... the developers of these trials are either based outside the African continent, or have research partners based in developed countries who can help support technology needs for analysis of clinical
    http://www.feminist.org/chat/chat_kimnichols03052003.asp
  • Google?s Africa Strategy: Search And Trade Via SMS
    ... China to trade. The farmers in China do not have computers to access the internet but they have mobile phone to connect with each other. There are about 0 ... more depth. (maximum 300 words) Background: There is a growing body of evidence that shows increased access
    http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/29/googles-africa-strategy-search-and-trade-via-sms/
  • President Paul Davenport
    ... the three major federal councils creating a single technology transfer office which would bring together all major research partners in London 3.  Ensuring Open Administration and Effective Communication continuing to build the ... on the allocation of resources, including those in our annual operating and capital budgets working with the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) to create an ... from the federal and provincial governments for a major regional research initiative involving key ...
    http://www.uwo.ca/pvp/priorities.htm
  • No. 31
    ... move towards urbanisation, especially in developing countries and countries with economies in transition where access to land is becoming increasingly difficult. If we are to improve the quality of ... decision. This can only be achieved if the decision makers, both city officials and citizens, have access to consistent and integrated information about land. A key element in providing ...
    http://www.fig.net/pub/figpub/pub31/figpub31.htm
  • Microsoft in the Enterprise Guide 2009
    ... infrastructure costs. City of Edinburgh City council reduces costs with Infrastructure Optimization Based in Scotland's capital city, the City of Edinburgh Council provides a range of services from ... challenges. Each department collected and stored data separately, making it difficult for others to access the history of a specific location. Also, investigators from several departments sometimes responded to ... and energy costs U.S.-based Continental Airlines wanted to provide its employees and customers with quicker ...
    http://www.microsoft.com/business/enterprise/resource/casestudies.mspx
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