. Unlike more mature, computer-based technologies, frontier technologies of the recent technology wave substantially lower …

The paper in hand compares retail banking and the electric energy sector to investigate how digitalisation influences … comparison. Our findings suggest that digitalisation affects (de)centralisation differently. Despite scale economies inherent to … processes of digitalisation, small entities must not be on the losing side. Cooperation tends to play a key role for regional …

During the last years more and more discussions came up about the contribution of technology-oriented and technology …-intensive industries for the economic development and employment. One reason for these contradictory evaluations of technology …-intensive industries can be attributed to different conceptual definitions of technology which are briefly discussed. The foundation and …

various technology-oriented sectors in West-Germany from 1983 until 1993 on the basis of a firm specific data set from the …During the last years more and more discussions came up about the contribution of technology-oriented and technology … various technology-intensive industries show high growth rates during the early eighties and after reunification in 1989. On …

consistent with the existence of localization and urbanization effects. The emergence of high technology firms seems to be …