This book presents tools for valuing and controlling corporate innovation. It combines a well-established theoretical framework with case studies at Siemens that illustrate the practice of valuing and controlling innovation and underline the strong link between theoretical concepts and practical...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the role of industrial self-supply in the transition process from centralized energy generation based on fossil fuels and nuclear power to decentralized supply based on renewable energies in the Bavarian electricity system....

We study optimal incentive contracts offered to a research and development (R&D) manager, who can propose an innovative project and is in charge of conducting this project. The manager has private information about the project profitability and he exerts unobservable levels of different kinds of...

Reale Investitionen sind mit einer Vielzahl unterschiedlicher Entscheidungen verbunden. Diese Entscheidungen hängen in hohem Maße voneinander ab. Die anfängliche Investitionsentscheidung muß die Möglichkeit, nachfolgende Entscheidungen treffen zu können, berücksichtigen. Diese Tatsache...