Our relationship with Capstone Turbine Corporation is a prime example of how we approach energy technology investing.
Our strategy is very simple: Whether we make a direct or indirect investment, we require three things: Our investments must enhance an existing Cinergy line of business or enhance our strategy.
It enables us to participate as a strategic as well as a financial partner and gives us an immediate understanding of the technology being developed, especially the risks and opportunities.
It also allows us to run pilots within Cinergy to prove the technology's potential and marketability to new customers, as we are doing with Capstone Turbine Corporation, a leading manufacturer of turbine-powered, low-emission power generators scaled for small and medium-sized businesses.
Summer-11 http://www.occ.treas.gov/cdd/Summer-11.pdf the technical assistance that is crucial to successful lending in this ` arena.
They also are eligible to access public and grant sources to fund the assistance.
At year-end 2001, the company had 98 relationships with CDFIs, representing 135 investments with nearly $190 million in funds committed or outstanding.
CDFI loans and deposits are delivered through market-based Community Development Lenders along with a variety of other community development banking products and other banking services.
When the need for capital is more broadly based, a community development loan fund such as the New Mexico Community Development Loan Fund might be the appropriate mechanism.
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One of the most critical elements in conveying the benefits of a strategic help desk is through the use of return on investment (ROI) and strategic value analysis.
For the help desk managers to have their initiatives viewed in the best possible light (i.e., most strategic in value), initiatives must be presented in a manner that highlights the ROI to the company in terms of not only cost savings but added and long term value to the organization.
STI Knowledge delivers products, services and certification worldwide to build and operate Help Desks, Call Centers and enterprise-wide Knowledge Centers.
STI Knowledge has set the standard worldwide with its Help Desk 2000, Call Center 2000 and Knowledge 2000 global communities.
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This paper attempts to answer these questions by examining preliminary findings from a cost-benefit research project conducted at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and federally funded by the Canadian TeleLearning Network of Centres of Excellence (NCE-Telelearning).
There is a variety of rationales for investing in on-line education, ranging from increasing access to improving the quality of learning to reducing costs to preparing students better for a knowledge-based society to responding to market demand (see, for instance, Dolence and Norris, 1995 or Katz, 1999).
The international partnership provided a context in which an online program can be cost effective and where course fees are kept at a reasonable level ("non-credit" students are charged C$695 per one semester course, equivalent to three graduate credits).
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The JISC's Information Environment will provide a range of services, tools and mechanisms for colleges and universities to exploit fully the value of online resources and services.
A key challenge is therefore to achieve a managed, coherent and shared information environment that will overcome these obstacles.It is an environment that will need to be compatible with the many developments that are taking place within colleges and universities, such as the growth of institutional Web sites, portals, Intranets and virtual learning environments (VLEs) and managed learning environments (MLEs).
In turn, institutions will be able to incorporate a range of these services within their own institutional online environments, presenting local content alongside nationally provided resources.
The Information Environment programme consists of a number of strands, each of which will deliver specific services, tools and mechanisms which will in time make up this managed and coherent environment.
crossroads2 Toronto Competes examined the changing global economic ties of cities, benchmarks of strengths and warning signs of the regional economy and Toronto's place in it, and comparative assessments of 10 key "traded" clusters of activity that will drive our growth and competitive position.
Since 1990 the City has lost 15,000 full-time retail jobs, while parttime jobs have remained fairly constant.
Toronto is the third-largest English language theatre centre and publishing centre in the world.
Research prepared for the new Official Plan shows that on a per-person basis, the level of arts and culture funding in Toronto's operating budget is about half of what city governments spend in New York, Chicago and Vancouver.
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We will research and select suitable investments and structure your portfolio's bond/equity asset mix according to your personal investment goals and objectives.
Each of our clients has a dedicated professional actively managing and continually monitoring his or her portfolio.
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InvestEdge is a browser-based enterprise investment system that leverages the data from your existing stock record, or portfolio accounting system to provide a true front-office solution.
It helps you monitor your accounts, make trading decisions and generate customer presentations more efficiently and more effectively.
You can use a web browser from any network-connected computer to easily access the power of InvestEdge's integrated applications.
For example, you can quickly: view portfolio allocation, investment style and more drill down on company statistics and research look up the notes from your last meeting with the client generate a complete investment presentation All through an easy-to-use web interface.
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7. WHAT DOES UBS CONSIDER WHEN INVESTING IN A GEOGRAPHY?
UBS asset management structures and manages timberland investments on behalf of institutional and private clients.
UBS offers closed-end commingled funds and individually managed accounts tailored to meet the needs of investors.
These management processes are amenable to environmental certification Land area required to meet incremental future wood needs is significantly less than that required if we were dependent on indigenous forest harvests.
Plantations provide many countries an avenue for economic development/diversification that is renewable, generates earnings and reduces pressure on indigenous forests.
Required two years of working with pension funds, regulatory agencies and Argentine government to ensure favorable investment climate and workable investment structure.
opinion Alex Pasteur, an investment manager with the UK venture capital group Cambridge Gateway Fund, relishes the challenge and the excitement of emerging technologies.
It becomes clear that he is exactly the person to ask which materials technologies will make it to market and explain the issues surrounding technology start-ups.
"I very much jumped on the Internet bandwagon," says Pasteur, describing his two years at Internet Exchange as "fascinating".
This formal investment typically comes when a fledgling start-up is moving forward after an initial seed round.
One area of materials science that may have outstanding potential is polymer electronics.
exciting, but it will take an awfully long time to commercialize."
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In this paper I develop a formal economic model of why corporations may face difficulties when making venture capital investments.
In thinking broadly about the reasons why corporations may have difficulties when investing in entrepreneurial companies, I see three main sets of issues.
The first set of reasons revolves around issues of intellectual property rights.
The second set relates to strategic conflicts of interest.
The third set concerns issues of organizational design and conflict within the corporation.
Second, even when intellectual property rights are an important asset of the entrepreneurial company there are reasons to believe that corporate investors should not have a significant disadvantage when competing with independent venture capitalists.
INDONESIA The 18 million that are regarded as 'not economically active' are either in school (nearly 11 million), work at home (5 million) or other (2 million).
The National Education Policy on HIV/AIDS prioritizes life-skills education, as it empowers young people to deal with the challenges of everyday life, including the prevention of high-risk behaviours (early ual initiation and drug use).
Modules for primary and secondary schools, as well as non-formal education learning centres, have been developed and fi eld-tested jointly by the National Department of Education and UNICEF.
Asian youth participating in the Speak Your Mind initiative aired their views and developed an Asian Youth Charter about their future dreams and challenges.
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He studies academic labor, higher education, and institutional policy.
But the phenomenon is the same---contracting out bargaining unit work to nonbargaining unit employees.
Locals 34 and 35 of the Federation of University Employees (FUE), an affiliate of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees International Union, won the dispute after Yale's 4,000 white- and blue-collar employees worked nearly all of 1996 without a contract.
No bargaining unit employee shall, hereafter, be laid off or be maintained on layoff status if bargaining unit work which s/he is qualified to perform is being performed by nonbargaining unit personnel, including subcontractors (Community College of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Memorandum of Understanding).
To what extent are such clauses found in ESP contracts?
The ESP contracts address several types of support for the professional development of employees.
Managers increasingly rely on subcontracting to retain "flexibility."
nsternpk At that time, the macroeconomic aggregates suggested that Pakistan was doing well.
What made India's rapid growth possible was a reform program that increased openness and competitiveness while improving major elements of its investment climate (both at the national level and in some states).
The Balochistan proggram also shows that there is scope for collaboration between the public and private sectors in education, targeting low-income households.
This support may go to schools themselves, as in Balochistan; alternatively, it may go to individuals, as in the case of the bursary and voucher programs used in Chile and Colombia (King, Orazem and Wohlgemuth 1999).
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A state's investment in public universities generates significant numbers of jobs, additional spending within the state, and increased tax revenues for local and state economies, according to the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges latest report.
Here in Leon County, according to a new study by Florida State University economics professor Frederick Bell, FSU accounts for 10.79 percent of all gross wages and 11.27 percent of employment.
While the immediate impact of FSU and the state's other public universities on employment is important to their local communities, the cumulative impact of them upon employment in our state is significant.
Legislators across the nation acknowledged that universities help fulfill their states' strategic needs when they responded to the 2001 Higher Education Issues Survey commissioned by the National Education Association.
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