In three instances, the company and the individual claimant were partners in joint ventures.

That connection will create the possibility for joint ventures, mergers and capital market cooperation.

They will focus initially on sectors such as credit cards but could develop other joint ventures.

India imports substantially from Africa, and Indian joint ventures in Africa cover a range of products.

Policy options include tax incentives, R D funds, economic development agencies, incentives for networking and joint ventures.

Regarding technology transfer, it was stressed that joint ventures were a prime vehicle for ensuring dissemination and intake.

The latter included acquisitions of assets abroad and strategic alliances with partners in host countries through joint ventures.

(h) There is a need to promote, expand and intensify research and development, to provide infrastructure and support services and to encourage investment, including joint ventures in developing countries engaged in the commodity and commodity processing sectors

However, there remain unfair behaviours toward women in the social life, especially in private companies, factories and joint ventures, etc.

They are thus mostly engaging in joint ventures with host country partners and establish their own production and service facilities.

These giant corporations have begun to control local seed companies through buyouts, joint ventures, and licensing arrangements, leading to seed monopolies.

(h) There is a need to promote, expand and intensify research and development, to provide infrastructure, enterprise development, technology and support services and to encourage investment, including joint ventures in developing countries engaged in the commodity and commodity processing sectors

Establishment of joint research and experiment centers or groups.

Joint transport ventures, for example, would have a strong political impact and maximum visibility, and would bring Maghreb citizens closer together physically and psychologically.

The preference for joint ventures and greenfield investment has a great deal to do with the lack of firm specific advantages among these SMEs from Singapore.

(a) The use of national apparatus and technology to launch payloads on behalf of other countries, relying, among other things, on joint ventures with foreign partners

They are significant to international trade and commerce with respect to, for example, the formation of overseas subsidiaries and joint ventures to manufacture, market and license products.

It was one of the first joint ventures with foreign capital in Ukraine and the first airline in the former Soviet Union to use new Boeing 737 aircraft.

A vibrant Palestinian civil society could become more flexible and open toward possible partnerships including more natural, holistic Israeli Palestinian joint ventures thus benefiting the region as a whole.

In other situations, alternative forms of participation may be more appropriate and successful, ranging from joint ventures to technology licensing and contractual arrangements for technology, marketing and other services.

Studies presented at the latter meeting detailed the nature and scope of private sector involvement, including taking equity, forming public private partnerships and fostering other types of joint ventures.

Given the difficult current fiscal situation, public private joint ventures should be explored here too, building on a large body of experience with growth supporting infrastructure investment in developing countries.

(j) Increased number of active partnerships (materialized in joint undertakings) with national and international research institutes departments (baseline 13 joint undertakings in 2005).

Therefore, international organizations should be encouraged to develop joint research programmes to harmonize international recommendations.

Political interference in the private sector throughout the region means that most large business projects are carried out as joint ventures with state controlled companies (sometimes covertly headed by members of the ruling elites).

But capital will continue to flow into green ventures.

In joint research with Nicolas Coeurdacier and Stéphane Guibaud, we show that economic data supports this view.

In this regard, Governments could welcome public private partnerships, including various forms of joint ventures, build operate transfer (BOT) schemes, and similar business arrangements, which could contribute to the upgrading and expansion of physical infrastructure.

The Africa Asia Business Forum aims to stimulate trade and investment between countries in both regions, bringing together business representatives to discuss possible joint ventures, bilateral agreements, enterprise exchanges and a variety of business instruments.

And, aside from a relatively small number of joint ventures with foreign partners and state enterprises that are in fact hybrid public private firms, most businesses today, including publicly listed companies, remain family owned or dominated.

In order to enhance prospects for international agreement on effective management, as the research community ventures further into deep sea environments, we encourage broad international collaboration and widespread availability of data, samples and findings.

Mr. John A. van Duursen, Founder, Fair Ventures, Amsterdam, Netherlands

7. Encourages existing arrangements and the further promotion of regional, subregional and interregional joint research and development projects by, where feasible, mobilizing existing scientific and research and development resources and by networking sophisticated scientific facilities and research equipment

21. Encourages existing arrangements and the further promotion of regional, subregional and interregional joint research and development projects by, where feasible, mobilizing existing scientific and research and development resources and by networking sophisticated scientific facilities and research equipment

Micro credit for self employment and small entrepreneurial ventures, especially for women.

In 2002 she was awarded a prize for the best summary of a joint research with King's College, and presented her research at the Global Conference on Health and Nutrition in London.

In addition, UNCTAD was participating in a joint research project with other organizations, including OECD and GIAN, on global value chains.

The participants in the FEC carry out joint research into developments in the field of financial and economic crime and the financing of terrorism, this research helping them to perform their duties better.

The project adopts a step by step approach, from the systematic exchange of information on current programmes carried out by the partners to joint research strategies, including possible launch of joint transational calls for proposals.

Some worry whether Bush will use his electoral mandate to engage in more ventures.

One project, entitled Public Goods for Economic Development , is under implementation, and involves a joint research programme with the Universidad Complutense in Madrid.

The United Nations, the relevant international organizations and Member States have carried out study trips, cultural and educational exchanges and joint scientific research.

The agenda includes an expansion of the tax base to reduce dependency on oil, an initiative to increase competition in media and telecommunications, and a constitutional change that will permit the state owned oil company Pemex to enter into joint ventures with foreign firms.

We underline the need for measures to further strengthen cooperative and collaborative efforts to address transit transport issues, among others to improve the physical infrastructure and non physical aspects of transit transport systems and to develop joint ventures and strengthen institutions and human resources.

The meeting is scheduled to take place in late September 2005, hosted by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Ispra, Italy.