The patentability of computer software is at the European and the national level under a controversial discussion, which in the present paper is analyzed in view of their economic legitimation. The article describes the characteristics of 'software' and indicates the implication that emanate...

The commitment to fixed book prices by law in Germany intents a protection of a variety of cultural aspects associated with producing and reading books. However the underlying line of arguments is based on diverse assumptions concerning for instance cross-subsidizing and resale infrastructure...

Ethical aspects were not only in the past a welcomed background for intensive discussions and struggles in the field of world economic problems. The article describes the challenges of integrating ethics in the analysis of economic processes and figures out some implications of methodological...

In view of the universities' role as a source of qualified labour, the paper aims at exploring what motivations determine students¡¯ career choice. Therefore, we performed a cross-sectional study of the underlying motives for the career intentions of 645 students from two German universities....

Die vorliegende Studie hat zum Ziel, die beruflichen Vorstellungen von Studierenden sowie die entsprechenden Beweggründe empirisch zu erfassen. Grundlage hierfür bildet eine reprä-sentative Erhebung unter 673 Studierenden der Technischen Universität Ilmenau, die im Zeitraum von April bis...

The objective of this article is to set a cornerstone to compare and understand the phenomenon of graduate entrepreneurship in developing and developed countries. Our central research questions are: Are there differences in the entrepreneurial intentions of university students? What are the...