The cash earnings of Austrian manufacturing, estimated by WIFO at 10.3 percent of the turnover in 2008, were close to their long-term average. During the last years, i.a., due to rising cash flows, the equity ratio rose to 38.5 percent in 2007, exceeding for the first time the European average...

In an attempt to reproduce the skyrocketing growth of the GSM standard, "standardisation" turned into a buzzword of many innovation and industrial policy documents. This paper critically discusses the potential for using standards as a policy tool by providing an overview of the complexity of...