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The effects of COVID-19 are currently pushing many economies into recession, affecting almost all countries and many billions of people worldwide. In order to recover from the economic downturn caused by COVID-19 and to promote regional development in Latvia, business lending plays an important role in our days. At present, the total amount of loans issued by credit institutions in Latvia has decreased compared to the previous analogue period, and according to statistics from the Finance and Capital Market Commiss...

The concept of entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs) has emerged in recent years as a framework to understand the nature of places in which entrepreneurial activity flourishes. Spigel (2017) defines entrepreneurial ecosystems as follows: В‘combinations of social, political, economic, and cultural elements within a region that support the development and growth of innovative start-ups and encourage nascent entrepreneurs and other actors to take the risks of starting, funding, and otherwise assisting high-risk ventures. ...

The introduction of 5G technologies is urgent for any EU Member State, including Latvia that has begun making preparations for introducing such technologies. In Latvia, mobile communication operators have begun installing 5G base stations, and several hundreds of them have been put into service. The clients of LMT and Tele2 could start using the fifth generation network or 5 G as early as next year. A survey of mobile communication users revealed that 99% of the respondents believed that transition from 4 G to 5 G...

Digitalization is rapidly evolving worldwide and today information exchange and electronic products have become an important part of life. Transformations caused by digitalization are seen as an economic, technological and social development phenomenon. Since higher education plays a key role in preparing future generations, it is essential to enhance the opportunities of higher education institutions offered by digitalization both in internal communication and marketing, thus improving their day-to-day work and a...

Japanese tourists are increasingly more interested and travel around the Baltic Sea countries including Latvia, Estonia and Finland. Compared to Central Europe and West Europe, the Baltic Sea region is safer and offers varied tourism opportunities. High potential exists in the Japanese market for Latvia, Estonia and Finland, but exploitation requires development, redesign/adaptation and promotion of suitable products which take account of Japanese customs, culture, language and expectations. The challenges on the ...

Nowadays, access to medicine is a crucial precondition for many disease prevention programmes and the treatment component of virtually all diseases. The availability of qualitative pharmaceutical care services is an integral part of the national welfare system, thus their quality maintenance and improvement under conditions of budget austerity is one of the main challenges for policy makers and pharmaceutical companies. The current research is a continuation of several related research projects implemented in scop...