The share of female inventors remains significantly lower than that of men in both developed and developing countries. This paper studies gender bias in patenting activity, using a unique dataset that matches Italian administrative employer-employee records both to patent data from the European...

"Urban heritage, which is part of the conceptual expansion of cultural heritage, has become an extraordinarily complex notion. Any aspect of urban life and experience can become heritage and this heritage is then continuously re-interpreted and exploited as a source not only for a city's...

Um die Ziele der Pariser Klimakonferenz zu erreichen, plädiert der Autor für ein finanzielles Engagement des Privatsektors bei der Kompensation deutscher CO2-Emissionen durch Klimaschutzmassnahmen in Entwicklungsländern. (2-3)

World population and the number of city dwellers are steadily growing. Globalization and digitalization lead to an increased competition for skilled and creative labor and other economic resources. This is true not only for firms, but increasingly also for cities. The book elaborates on...