We study why high-priced acquisitions of entrants by an incumbent do not necessarily stimulate more innovation and …

The paper studies the relevance of product heterogeneity for innovation dynamics using an agent-based model. The … vantage point is a short a review on the empirical relevance of capability accumulation for innovation processes and an … insights on product innovation in macroeconomic models, a simple agent-based model, which may later serve as an innovation …

harmful to the probability of process innovation based on IT. Leaving the negative relationship between older workers and the …. Thus, not older workers in general are harmful to firms' innovation capabilities, but older workers who lack the …

The globalized Western culture of innovation, as propagated by major aid institutions, does not necessarily lead to … empowerment or improvement of the well-being of the stakeholders. On the contrary, it often blocks viable indigenous innovation … cultures. In African societies and African Diasporas in Latin America, cultures of innovation largely accrue from the informal …

paper presents a model of killing versus enslaving Caesar, based on a new theory which unifies justice, status, and power … of societies - justice-nonmaterialistic, status, and power-nonmaterialistic. Results cover members' gains, effects of own … killed only in a justice-nonmaterialistic society, and from the noblest of motives - to achieve equal gains for members. …

backdrop of considerations about the meaning of justice in the context of sustainability. We argue that the preservation of the … natural basis of life is by itself a requirement of justice. However, the crucial role of the ecological dimension of … sustainability has been neglected due to a problematic interpretation of the economic dimension, a limited understanding of justice …

implicitly assume that countries have a universal understanding of justice. But this assumption is rather questionable. With … regard to the existing cultural differences in the understanding of justice the transferability of elements of health care … systems is not always given. A transfer usually requires a thorough examination of the ideas of justice in each country. This …