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Abstract: Regardless their high potential, renewable energy resources are insufficiently exploited in Europe. This paper examines the potential of social marketing for renewable energy sources. It uses acceptability and willingness to pay results from existing surveys on renewable energy sources and generates a marketing mix for the state, organizations, businesses and consumers. These surveys typically claim to produce results that will be useful for policy making or marketing purposes. However, after they distinguish the parameters that affect acceptability or choice and willingness to pay, they do not go deeper to demonstrate the ways for the exploitation of the results. Therefore, this paper gauges the gap between the results from consumer stated preference studies and the insights generated for social marketing. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Background: Cryptomarkets, or illegal anonymizing online platforms that facilitate drug trade, have been analyzed in a rapidly growing body of research. Previous research has found that, despite increased risks, cryptomarket sellers are often willing to ship illegal drugs internationally. There is little to no information, however, about the extent to which uncertainty and risk related to geographic constraints shapes buyers' behavior and, in turn, the structure of the global online drug trade network. In this paper, we analyze the structure of a complete cryptomarket trade network with a focus on the role of geographic clustering of buyers and sellers.Methods: We use publicly available crawls of the cryptomarket Abraxas, encompassing market transactions between 463 sellers and 3542 buyers of drugs in 2015. We use descriptive social network analysis and Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGM) to analyze the structure of the trade network.Results: The structure of the online drug trade network is primarily shaped by geographical boundaries. Buyers are more likely to buy from multiple sellers within a single country, and avoid buying from sellers in different countries, which leads to strong geographic clustering. The effect is especially strong between continents and weaker for countries within Europe. A small fraction of buyers (10%) account for more than a half of all drug purchases, while most buyers only buy once.Conclusion: Online drug trade networks might still be heavily shaped by offline (geographic) constraints, despite their ability to provide access for end-users to large international supply. Cryptomarkets might be more "localized" and less international than thought before. We discuss potential explanations for such geographical clustering and implications of the findings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: Slovak economy looks like a forlorn young lady with complicated history and uncertain future. Slovakia, as a small part of big European community, contributes to solving European problems – both politically and financially. This attitude is not a problem. The problem is that we forget that all past major problems of Europe have begun as problems of individual countries in the European Union. The economy of the Slovak Republic is based on small and medium-sized enterprises SME. The role played by SME is irreplaceable, especially in the areas of job creation, balancing regional development and the introduction of innovations into standard business practice. However, long-term problems of small and medium enterprises are not addressed (corruption, lack of law enforcement, bureaucracy, large regional disparities, lack of sup port for emerging businesses. We often create partial solutions just in case of an acute problem, but we do not prepare conceptual solutions to real problems. According to our view, there arises a problem that could have wide-ranging implications. The aim of our paper is to point out the global effects of some unsolved problems. These consequences are presented as two issues - the issue of the business aging and death and issue of the international evaluation of our business environment. Our analysis was focused only on business environment in Slovakia. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]