Pathways of SME Internationalization: a bibliometric and systematic review

Business is dynamic and rapidly changing. Global markets were previously the playing field of multinational corporations (MNCs), while small and medium enterprises (SMEs) were local; however, the removal of imposed barriers, and recent technological advances in manufacturing, transportation and communications have indorsed SMEs and international entrepreneurs (IE) global access. SMEs and IEs are increasingly fueling economic growth and innovation and these trends are presenting both opportunities and challenges to both MNCs and SMEs in the global arena. This review systematically examines comparative SME and IE research, analyzing (after fine tuning) 762 articles published in leading journals from 1992 to September 2018. Our bibliometric and systematic review classifies SME and IE research findings into three echelons: (i) subjects; (ii) theories; and (iii) methods

Isolating self-motion manifolds on a Playstation

9th International Symposium on Advances in Robot Kinematics (ARK) 2004, Sestri, Levante (Italia)In this paper, we show how it is possible to use the specialized hardware of a Play Station 2 (PS2) to speed up the execution of the Cuik algorithm, an interval-based inverse kinematics algorithm. A PS2 includes a RISC CPU and two parallel vector units able to perform four floating point multiplications and four additions in a single cycle. A careful use of these two vector units to implement the basic operations of the Cuik algorithms allows increasing the speed of the algorithm in one order of magnitude. The final implementation in the PS2 is as fast as that in a Pentium 4 at 2:6GHz (that is at least three times more expensive than a plain PS2).This work was supported by the project 'Design and implementation of efficient parallelizable algorithms with applications to robotics and proteomics' (J-00869).Peer Reviewe