This article examines whether, how, and to what extent international technology partnerships of Russian enterprises and research institutes contribute to their technological capability building. It presents results obtained by analysis of both a unique survey of Russian enterprises and research...

Since the early 1990s, the Scandinavian countries have recovered from one of the most severe crises of any Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) country ever, returning to a 'high road' growth path and also succeeding in terms of macroeconomic stabilisation indicators. To...

The significance of a series of new telecommunication services in Germany is investigated in a study of four business sectors conducted in 1992. Overall, it is revealed that the use of new telecommunication services falls short of the forecasts that were made at the end of the 1980s. Across all...

Value-added services (VAS) are claimed to be among the most important and fastest-growing parts of the telecommunications industry. However, there is a striking lack of precision in the use of the term VAS. Because of the problems of definition the empirical evidence concerning the volume of...

Dieses Buch führt unterschiedliche Ansätze und Vorgehensweisen zur Erklärung von Diffusionsprozessen im Bereich der Telekommunikation zusammen. Es enthält Beiträge einer Reihe von Wissenschaftlern unterschiedlicher sozialwissenschaftlicher Disziplinen. Zunächst werden die grundlegenden...