Um dem steigenden Wettbewerbsdruck standhalten und den veränderten Kundenwünschennachkommen zu können, wandeln sich viele Industrieunternehmen vom klassischen Produktzumumfassenden Lösungsanbieter, d.h. zum Erzeuger und Vermarkter so genannter hybriderProdukte.In diesem Arbeitspapier stehen...

While a market economy seeks equilibrium, a knowledge-based economy may upset this tendency towards stabilization by adding the feedback of globalization. The interaction among the three subdynamics of economic exchange, technological innovation, and institutional control can be captured with a...

This paper investigates interregional differences in cooperative behavior ofmanufacturing establishments in the field of research and development (R&D).The empirical analysis for eleven European regions reveals a number ofsignificant differences between these regions in the propensity to...