Systemic innovation theory emphasizes that innovations are the result of an interdependent exchange process between different organizations. This is reflected in the current paradigm in European innovation policy, which aims at the support of collaborative R&D and innovation projects bringing...

The development and successful introduction of new products is a fundamental feature of a modern knowledge society. After completion of the retrieving technological renewals in East Germany, businesses in the newly-formed German states have to stand up to the competition for marketable concepts...

It is generally acknowledged that research organizations require public support to perform research and development activities. In this context, projects grants play a continuously increasing role that, particularly, aim at strengthening network relationships among the actors within an...

Exact lower bound on the correlation function and susceptibility are obtained in terms of the quantity r∗=r0+(12u/(2π)d)∫ ddl〈ϕlϕ−l〉, where 〈ϕlϕ−l〉 are the exact averages. Further lower bounds are obtained on r∗, relating it to an exactly soluble model.

One of the most important and most contentious issues for regulation and competition raised by the 1996 Telecommunications Act is when to authorize the regional Bell companies to offer long-distance services. The Department of Justice (DOJ) adopted a standard requiring that a Bell's local market...

We consider the stochastic dynamics of constrained systems. It is shown that by expressing the Lagrange multipliers in terms of quantities that are local in time, exact and potentially useful dynamic equations of the Langevin, Fokker-Planck and Smoluchowskii equations are obtained. The equations...