Wie bauen namhafte Unternehmen FE-Standorte für ihre Kernprodukte in Emerging Markets auf? Welche Faktoren sind dabei erfolgsentscheidend? Vom Offshoring einfacher Standardtätigkeiten bis hin zu komplexen globalen Kompetenzzentren stellen renommierte Unternehmen ihr FE-Engagement vor....

Modern spatial-economic systems exhibit a high degree of dynamics as a result of technological progress, demographic evolution or global change. In the past decade, an avalanche of new regional economic growth and innovation models has been put forward. This volume contains a unique collection...

The need for informed and effective insights into key concepts and models of regional development and growth, from an endogenous growth perspective, has risen over the past decade. These recent advances address in particular local and regional assets and characteristics comprising inter alia...

The Korean government believes it can turn the country into one of the top 10 competitive economies by 2010. This volume offers an in-depth analysis of the Korean innovation system and shows how its science and technology policies actually work. As Korea's economy is now reaching the status of a...

Edwin Mansfield was a research pioneer into the economics of R and D and technological change. As appreciation and remembrance for his scholarly contributions, eminent scholars have contributed original papers for this edited volume. The authors have followed the 'Mansfieldian' approach of...

Wertstellung von Informations- und Kommunikationssystemen in der Logistik -- Multi-Agent System for Configuration of Individualized Products -- Entwurf von kombinatorischen Auktionen für Allokations- und Beschaffungsprozesse -- Geschäftsprozessmanagement für das Unternehmen von morgen --...

To explain the importance of scientific research and technological innovation for industrial countries and in particular for the EU, in order to improve or to maintain economic leadership, is the central idea of this volume. It starts with a historical and theoretical perspective on...

Introduction -- A Research Agenda -- The Role of Banks in the Schumpeterian Innovative Evolution - An Axiomatic Set-up -- Generalized Barriers to Entry and Economic Development -- Inventing Together: Exploring the Nature of International Knowledge Spillovers in Latin America -- Formal and...