In the past, engineers have typically focused on product design and innovation through newer technologies, while marketers have focused on market and competitor intelligence and customer preferences. The time has come for an effective integration of these two focal areas for the successful...

The wide range of topics to be covered by the studies may include but is not limited by: a) Globalization and the chronic poor b) ‘Corporate globalization’ and the poor. c) Threshold and externality effects of globalization and dynamics of ‘between-country inequality’ e) Global economic...

Das WSI-Herbstforum 2005 lädt ein zur Diskussion über die Frage, inwiefern Eigenverantwortung und Solidarität als Leitprinzipien eines modernen Sozialstaats dienen können und sollen.

The new “new economy” involves not only novel information, but it is also characterized by increased spatial and functional fragmentations of the value-added chains. On the one hand they may give rise to information failures and problems of uncertainty which require the development of new...

This seventh scientific conference on "Innovations and Intellectual Property" would mainly wish to tackle the problem of the determination of the values of the intellectual property. In the current state of research work proposed in communication should be however based initially on the patent....

Es gibt viele Ansätze, um zu radikalen Innovationen zu kommen. Ein Ausgangspunkt ist das Erkennen neuer oder noch nicht herausgearbeiteter Bedarfskonstellationen. Nur mit speziellen Methoden und Organisationsformen kann man die neuen Ansätze entwickeln und ihnen zum Durchbruch...

Sources of Innovation: R&D Spillovers, Inventor and Industry Studies, Corporate Governance of Innovative Firms Impacts of Innovation: Productivity and Firm Performance, Patenting in Basic Research (e.g. Genomics and Pharmaceuticals) Financing of Innovation: Public vs. Private Funding, R&D...

The ECINEQ conference will provide a forum for a rigorous analysis of inequality, welfare and redistribution issues, both at the theoretical and at the empirical level, as well as for a discussion of the policy implications of the research findings in this field.

The aim of the symposium is to bring together leading scholars of Latin American economic affairs, researchers on the economics and politics of inequality, and researchers focusing on applied policy research to discuss these matters. Issues to be considered are: -The determinants of inequality...