MUNICH By 2010, Europe was to be the most competitive and dynamic knowledge based society in the world. This was the official proclamation in 2000 of the European Commission in the so called Lisbon Agenda.

The aim is no longer to become the world s most competitive knowledge economy, as disingenuously announced in 2000.

Improvement of the competitiveness of Greek Agriculture

Improvement of competitiveness of agricultural enterprises

Moreover, the true believers cite America s better funded and hyper competitive university system, which sucks in a disproportionate share of the world s top students and researchers.

What we are demanding is a more level playing field.

Britain failed to put in place an effective competition policy.

The total failure of the Lisbon Agenda, launched in March 2000 to make the EU the most competitive and dynamic knowledge base economy in the world demonstrated the weakness of a centralized approach.

We basically tried to create the most competitive environment for our lab as possible.

MISs can help a company gain a competitive advantage.

The challenge is thus to convert comparative advantages into competitiveness.

Forty years ago, South Korea had a comparative advantage in growing rice.

Working in so uncompetitive a market is a real stroke of luck.

It was also helping the private sector to promote industrial development and make developing countries more competitive.

It is clear that in this context, the contracting parties are not of equal bargaining power.

Anxiety over unconventional monetary policies and currency wars must not continue to dominate global policy discussions, especially given last month s pledge by G 20 leaders not to engage in competitive currency devaluations.

Apathy was lower in the 2008 election, which featured a competitive election for president.

And so today, I'm going to show you four, because I hope to have a competitive advantage at the end of this, still.

Contemporary Russians consume competitive products Nestle cereals, Mercedes cars, Hollywood movies.

Visualizing the user's information and providing an intelligible interface is an opportunity for competitive advantage.

Users can set up a competitive game of up to 32 players and up to 8 players for co op.

Equally important is to establish a competitive environment for ISPs.

This resulted in a significant reduction in the interest rate differential with other countries, which, together with a more active intervention policy in the spot and future markets, brought the exchange rate to a much more competitive level, despite the global currency war.

That, in turn, requires making Greek goods and services more competitive relative to those of the country s trading partners.

Similarly, many company bosses know that pretending that climate problems do not exist is bad for shareholders, because reality will one day strike.

Japan's political leadership needs to be founded on a competitive but stable political structure.

Conversations about other people (usually absent), which may be either critical, competitive, or supportive.

Technology management is set of management disciplines that allows organizations to manage their technological fundamentals to create competitive advantage.

There is a proliferation of actors in the sector, and the industry is competitive on a regional basis.

They hope for an upturn in the economic climate, or to get a comparative advantage in the ferocious competition for first jobs. They are, above all, gaining time.

Chebet began pacemaking in marathon races in 2009 and made his competitive debut over the distance in 2010.

High transportation and distribution costs can render sections of an economy uncompetitive.

ISPs would benefit from more competitive conditions for the purchase of international leased circuit capacity.

There was no open, competitive tender process, and the contract was not referred to the Monopolies and Contracts Commission.

The relationships among local authorities are generally competitive and this competitiveness may be exploited for purposeful ends.

The introduction of a competitive environment for access to the factors of production increases social differentiation in the countryside and polarizes agriculture into two types competitive modern faming systems oriented solely towards the market, and family subsistence farming, which embraces most of the workers on the land.

Indeed, it might be that a liberal constitutional culture is more important than the mere fact of competitive elections.

And South Korea has accomplished this feat in China s intensely competitive immediate neighborhood.

Huge imbalances between those and other areas should be gradually reduced by investment in projects that would emphasize competitive advantages.

First, the bad news electricity currently produced in photovoltaic installations is far from price competitive with conventional technologies.

Brazil, meanwhile, aims to gain a competitive edge by making it easier for foreigners to immigrate with their families.

Even winners of competitive elections have commitments to their campaign teams and sponsors.

We are multiple players, but we are engaged in a single game a game that must be cooperative, not simply competitive.

The fact is that a weaker dollar resulting from lower interest rates gives the US a slight competitive advantage in trade.

And, despite a more competitive exchange rate, the US continues to run a large current account deficit.