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ICDAR 2015 competition on Robust Reading

IEEE International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2015
Results of the ICDAR 2015 Robust Reading Competition are presented. A new Challenge 4 on Incidental Scene Text has been added to the Challenges on Born-Digital Images, Focused Scene Images and Video Text. Challenge 4 is run on a newly acquired dataset of
Dimosthenis Karatzas, L. G. I. Bigorda, Anguelos Nicolaou, Suman K. Ghosh, Andrew D. Bagdanov, M. Iwamura, Jiri Matas, Lukás Neumann, V. Chandrasekhar, Shijian Lu, F. Shafait, S. Uchida, Ernest Valveny   +12 more
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Competition as a Discovery Procedure

Shaping Entrepreneurship Research, 2020
It would not be easy to defend macroeconomists against the charge that for 40 or 50 years they have investigated competition primarily under assumptions which, if they were actually true, would make competition completely useless and uninteresting.
F. Hayek
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Competition for Listings [PDF]

The RAND Journal of Economics, 1999
We develop a model in which two prot maximizing exchanges compete for IPO listings. They choose the listing fees paid by entrepreneurs wishing to go public and control the trading costs incurred by investors. All entrepreneurs prefer lower costs, however entrepreneurs dier in how they value a decrease in trading costs.
FOUCAULT, Thierry, PARLOUR, Christine A.
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Mass Customization: The New Frontier in Business Competition

, 1992
The article reviews the book “Mass Customization: The New Frontier in Business Competition,” by B. Joseph Pine II.
S. Kotha
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Price and quantity competition in a differentiated duopoly

, 1984
This article analyzes the duality of prices and quantities in a differentiated duopoly. It is shown that if firms can only make two types of binding contracts with consumers, the price contract and the quantity contract, it is a dominant strategy for ...
Nirvikar Singh, X. Vives
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Barriers to new competition

, 1957
Conditions of entry into markets where sellers are few are analyzed intensively by Professor J. S. Bain in his Barriers to New Competition.1 In the tightly written first chapter the theory of entry is developed far beyond what was previously in the ...
J. Bain
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Competition and Biodiversity in Spatially Structured Habitats

, 1994
All organisms, especially terrestrial plants and other sessile species, interact mainly with their neighbors, but neighborhoods can differ in composition because of dis- persal and mortality.
D. Tilman
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From competitiveness to competition

Resources Policy, 1996
Abstract Minimill steel companies-re;atively small, efficient producers that use electric furnaces to melt scrap or directly reduced iron ore - have steadily increased their share of US steel production from about 5% in 1970 to more than 35% today, forcing the closure of numerous integrated facilities over this period.
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Competitiveness and Competitive Advantage [PDF]

, 1995
Competitiveness as a comparative measure between companies within an industry is closely related to the presence of a competitive advantage. A major contribution to enlighten competitive advantage has come from studies done by Michael Porter. He describes competitive advantage as follows (Porter, 1985): Competitive advantage grows out of value a firm
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International Competitiveness [PDF]

The Economic Journal, 1988
This paper develops and tests a model of differing trends in international competitiveness and economic growth across countries. The model relates the development of market shares at home and abroad to three sets of factors: the ability to compete in technology, the ability to compete in delivery(capacity) and the ability to compete in price. The test,
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