Nanotechnologies are expected to be the dominant general purpose technology of the next decades. Their market potential is immense and not only supply-side but especially demand-side arguments will have far reaching consequences for innovations. The latter may occur as increased miniaturization...

Nanotechnologies are expected to be the dominant general purpose technology of the next decades. Their market potential is immense and especially demand side arguments will have far reaching consequences for innovations. They may occur as increased miniaturization or via building completely new...

Das Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) fordert die Entwicklung der Nanotechnologie in Deutschland mithilfe einer Vielzahl von Instrumenten. Allerdings liegen bislang wenige Studien vor, deren Fokus die Unternehmensperspektive im Innovationsprozess von Nanotechnologien einnimmt....

Nanotechnologies are expected to be the dominant general purpose technology of the next decades. Their market potential is immense and especially demand side arguments will have far reaching consequences for innovations. They may occur as increased miniaturization or via building completely new...

Recent discussions about the evolvement of nanotechnologies criticize that the notion ‘risk’ is too abstract and an all-inclusive category. Moreover, the concept of risk is not precise enough to describe the potential issues related to the development of nanotechnologies. Instead, experts of...

This paper develops the concept of converging institutions and applies it to nanotechnologies. Starting point are economic and socialogical perspectives. We focus on the entire innovation process of nanotechnologies beginning with research and development over diffusion via downstream sectors...

The concept of distinction is at the heart of the German reception of Pierre Bourdieu\'s works. The special translation of the most important key words directly related to it, i.e. the body (Leib) and the agent (Akteur), and the translation of the concept of distinction itself (Unterschied), led...

Le concept de distinction est au cÅ“ur de la réception allemande des travaux de Pierre Bourdieu. La traduction particulière des termes principaux qui s\'y lient directement, à savoir le corps (Leib) et l\'agent (Akteur), et la traduction du concept de distinction lui-même (Unterschied)...

Das Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg legt hiermit seinen dritten eigenständigen Forschungsbericht vor. Seit 1999 erschien unser Bericht als Teil des Forschungsberichts des Fachbereichs Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften; dieser Bericht wurde nach dem...

The objective of this paper is to analyze the welfare impact of corrupt bureaucratic behavior within the framework of a growth model. This allows to disentangle the interaction between static and dynamic bureaucratic efficiency. The economy is described by the following conditions: (i) The...