Es ist das Bestreben des Ausschusses, die Themen seiner Tagungen an aktuellen Fragen der Finanzpolitik auszurichten. Nach einer intensiven Diskussion der verschiedenen Aspekte der Finanzierung der deutschen Einheit und des nationalen und internationalen Finanzausgleichs in den Vorjahren hat sich...

50 Jahre nach Joseph A. Schumpeters Tod am 8. Januar 1950 ist sein wissenschaftliches Werk noch immer von aktueller Relevanz. Professor Horst Hanusch, Generalsekretär der Internationalen Joseph A. Schumpeter Gesellschaft, würdigt das Werk des bedeutenden Ökonomen.

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of public expenditures on economic growth within the analytical framework of comprehensive Neo-Schumpeterian economics. Using a fixed-effects model for G20 countries, the paper investigates the links between the specific categories of public expenditures and...

This paper deals with a conceptual framework allowing the analysis of long-run qualitative change in the energy system. The energy sector seems to be particularly appropriate for the analysis of qualitative change due to the following reasons: The energy sector is relevant for the development of...

Empirical research in organizational ecology has mainly focused on analyzing founding and mortality rates using life history data of the organizations. We try to extend this approach in our study in a number of ways. In contrast to most empirical studies in organizational ecology, we chose a...

In this paper, we give an overview on recent developments in the research on national innovation systems (NIS). Essentially, we identify three development lines of the concept. These are policy-oriented studies that frequently combine the NIS approach with the terminology of corporate...

In the previous decades, the European Union (EU) has succeeded in integrating new member countries, in economic and in political respects. Three main reasons lie behind this successful integration process: First, the solidarity of richer EU members with their poorer counterparts, second, the...

In this paper we try to put together both the dynamics of the endogenous evolution of an industry and the corresponding dynamics on the capital market. The first module of our modelling efforts is the endogenous evolution of the industry based on the micro-behaviour of boundedly rational agents....

Within the last 25 years large progress has been made in the Neo-Schumpeterian Economics, this branch of economicliterature which deals with dynamic processes causing qualitative transformation of economies basically driven by the introduction of novelties in their various and multifaceted...

The paper shows that Comprehensive Neo-Schumpeterian Economics (CNSE) is an adequate theoretical approach accompanying the enforcement of the aims of the Lisbon Agenda. The CNSE approach is based on the principle of innovation and the idea of future orientation penetrating all spheres of...