Along with the rise of the now popular ‘open' paradigm in innovation management, networks have become a common approach to practicing innovation. Foresight could potentially greatly benefit from resources that become available when the knowledge base increases through networks. This article...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA): Ein brauchbarer Ansatz zur Messung der Effizienz im Marketing? So fragen Backhaus / Wilken (2003) in einem aktuellen Arbeitspapier und kommen zu dem Schluss, dass die DEA durchaus Potenzial besitzt, warnen aber vor den Grenzen der DEA und sehen besonderen...

Wirtschaftswissenschaft und Biologie befassen sich mit Produktionsprozessen, ein Austausch gegen-seitiger Erkenntnisse findet jedoch nicht oder selten statt, weil selbstauferlegte disziplinäre Fragestel-lungen Vorrang haben. So beschäftigt sich die Wirtschaftswissenschaft ausschließlich mit...

...We rely on Matsuyama (1996, 1999) to study the effects on growth and welfareof non distortive tax/subsidy policies. In particular, we are interested ininvestigating the stabilising/destabilising effects of policies aimed at eliminatingeconomic fluctuations. The focus on stabilisation...

During the two decades after the Second World War, international tradeexpanded at its most rapid pace of the twentieth century. Between 1948 and1968, the total volume of merchandise exports from non-communist countriesgrew by a remarkable 290 percent. 2 And the growth of world trade during...

Although industrial production and growth in Greece during the interwar periodhas attracted considerable attention, there has not been any serious challengeeither in qualitative or quantitative terms to the orthodoxy established in theperiod itself. The literature usually sees the 1920s as a...

The period of 1840 (when the Opium War broken out) till now is commonly regarded as China’s modern era, ‘modern’ in terms of China’s departure from its original growth and developmental path. In this context, the term modern has been intimately associated with something alien to the...

The North European Pipeline mostly known as Nord Stream is one of the most discussed natural gas pipeline projects today. The realization of this project will make it possible to meet the increasing demand for gas in Europe, to raise the security of export supplies of Russian gas, and to reduce...