Topics: - Firm performance and growth determinants - Short-run economic factors and the crisis - Internationalisation and competitiveness - Innovation and market structure - SME´s

We invite researchers, practitioners, public administration officers and students to actively participate and present communications addressing topics such as: - Regional innovation systems and specific challenges for EU regions under Innovation Union commitments; - Frontier versus follower...

Technology has been identified with a host of problems and solutions that are closely linked with aims for sustainable development in lowand middle-income countries. It is an essential enabling feature of globalization, and local applications of technology offer possibilities for building...

In particular, the workshop will address the following topics: - Assessment of differences and similarities between Germany and India in the industrial structure of entrepreneurship. Such an assessment should at least make a distinction between entrepreneurship in innovative industries and in...