Part I: Entrepreneurship and entrant-incumbent dynamics. Negotiating for the market / Joshua S. Gans -- Innovation policies / Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf -- Nuanced role of relevant prior experience: sales takeoff of disruptive products and product innovation with disrupted technology...

Im World Wide Web werden diverse Dinge kostenlos angeboten. So auch die so genannte Open-Source-Software. Dass viele Akteure freie und kostenlos zugängliche Software entwickeln, ohne in geregelter Weise dafür entlohnt zu werden, wirft die Frage nach der grundsätzlichen Vereinbarkeit dieses...

This editorial launches REGION, the new online and open-access journal of ERSA. REGION aims to be a high-quality academic journal in the field of regional science. To its contributors, it offers a solid peer-review process and immediate publica- tion upon acceptance. Also, it will be a flexible...

This resource contains the materials and structure suggested to run a mini course of approximately 14 hours on spatial data, analysis and regression. The course is structured along four lectures and four labs that require the use of computers.

The notion that Afghanistan at present is at a decisive point in time is well known. Information systems in Afghan public institutions are no exception. Mainly caused by the lack of available knowledge and competencies with regard to Open Source software, information systems infrastructures - by...

This paper examines the questions of who participates in the provision of a public good through the voluntary participation of agents in the presence of strong complementarity between a public good and a private good. We show that the greater the initial endowment of the private good that agents...