Overcoming Inferior External Environments in the Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology Industries via R&D Management (Japanese)

For firms to build up competitive advantage in business, the prevailing belief generally holds that in addition to positioning themselves in attractive industries expected to generate high profits, it is also important that they locate their bases in nations and regions which provide favorable external environments. Nevertheless, in reality there are many firms where these conditions are not met. This paper focuses on such companies, and considers ways to build up competitive advantage. In particular, this study suggests that it is important to establish an effective management in order to acquire and utilize management resources.

MEM study of true flattening of free energy and the θ\theta term

We study the sign problem in lattice field theory with a $\theta$ term, which reveals as flattening phenomenon of the free energy density $f(\theta)$. We report the result of the MEM analysis, where such mock data are used that `true' flattening of $f(\theta)$ occurs. This is regarded as a simple model for studying whether the MEM could correctly detect non trivial phase structure in $\theta$ space. We discuss how the MEM distinguishes fictitious and true flattening.Comment: Poster presented at Lattice2004(topology), Fermilab, June 21-26, 2004; 3 pages, 3 figure