""This book examines developing practices for businesses to effectively manage their assets on a global scale. It also examines the implementation of technological innovation into business techniques as well as the methods of controlling information in a contemporary society"--Provided by...

Economic and financial crises have brought the rise of unemployment, reduction of economic growth and emergence of global imbalances and tensions as countries and regions have suffered the effects of a variety of internal and external shocks. In this context of constant disruption, the...

It is the objective of this paper to analyse the role innovation policy could play in the promotion of regional change, using Germany as a case study, and to develop a typology of structurally weak regions for tailored and regionally specific policy interventions.