Public schools across the United States are educating an increasing number and diversity of immigrant students. Unfortunately, little is known about their performance relative to native-born students and the extent to which the “nativity gap” might be explained by school and demographic...

Moderne Innovationsprozesse sind durch eine zunehmende Komplexität gekennzeichnet, die dafür verantwortlich ist, daß kaum ein Unternehmen mehr allein in der Lage ist, alle relevanten Entwicklungen zu verfolgen, geschweige denn zu beherrschen. Aus diesem Grund wird der Rückgriff auf externe...

The book illustrates the considerable advances in modern evolutionary economics and addresses core questions of economic behaviour, interaction of heterogeneous actors in uncertain environments and the possibility of aggregating observations on a macro-economic level. It presents the foundations...