But a series of developments over the last 20 years or so -- a university's ability to patent and license scientific discoveries, the Internet's potential to market ideas, and a competitive cultural ethos that relies more and more on rankings in many fields of endeavor, including college admissions -- are creating new ethical quandaries.
Though a short walking distance from 15 major theaters, the Royal Opera House and dozens of galleries, "we go to great lengths to accommodate guests who prefer more competitive cultural events," said Howard Rombough, spokesman for the Campbell Gray Hotels, which owns the One Aldwych.
For George Rooks, the Rose Classic has served dual functions: one competitive, one cultural.
Instead of increasing its competitive advantage, cultural battles and turf wars threaten to leave it behind in a highly competitive industry, current and former employees said.
The installment is a public gift from the design savvy City of Sydney, unanimously approved in July as Item 6.14 in a three year vision for Christmas in the City--which is a greater part of the goals and targets for Sustainable Sydney 2030; a long range plan to maintain leadership as a globally competitive, innovative, cultural, and creative city.
Six years ago, the Goodspeed board came up with a plan for the future in an increasingly crowded and competitive marketplace for cultural offerings.
"The dance clubs, the breakfast clubs, the music clubs and all those things that middle-class families quite rightly put a lot of effort into give an extraordinary cultural competitive advantage to those children.
India and America are now intertwined in so many different co-operative and competitive ways military, commercial, cultural, educational, scientific that they may have outgrown a "strategic dialogue", where governments chart the course.
Crop rotation induces disturbances that vary with the crop grown each year (planting or maturation dates, growth habit, competitive ability, associated cultural practices, fertiliser requirements and more or less specific herbicides) while the disturbance regime is constant in monocultures.
In this competition the cultural heritage of the city's glorious past reveals itself as a prominent competitive advantage in 'theming' and marketing post-modern Vienna.
"In today's competitive environment, arts and cultural organizations, from museums to orchestras, need to do more than create great works of art," said José Bowen, dean of the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist.
