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 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 process of catching up with the old EU members requires in Central Eastern Europe that the economies of these countries have to grow faster than in Western Europe. A high and sustainable growth path depends on the ability of these countries to develop technologically. The workshop will be...

The objective of the conference is to gather recent contributions to the study of innovation processes in the field of theoretical and applied I.O.. Topics to be covered include : - intellectual property rights and appropriation strategy, - venture capital and financial agreements, -...

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There will be three sessions on gender-related topics: p.e. aspects of women's acitvities in the economics profession, on the economics of spousal relationships and on issues of child care and the will also be three sessions on non-gender-related topics: areas of information technology and...