Deals with economic aspects of changing attitudes in arts and sciences. This book emphasizes the effects of the public good character of culture, along with the very long production period and lifetime for its products, as both contribute to the failure of normal market solutions

Early thinking and the emergence of entrepreneurship -- Entrepreneurship as a discipline and field of study -- Economic perspectives of entrepreneurship -- Entrepreneurship in the field of development economics -- Creating value and innovation through social entrepreneurship -- The...

Introduction -- Linear Programming -- Multi objective Programming -- Integer Linear Programming -- Network Models -- Location Models -- Project Networks -- Maschine Scheduling -- Decision Analysis -- Multi criteria Decision Analysis -- Inventory Models -- Stochastik Processes and Markov Chains...

This textbook is intended for an introductory graduate level on process control, taught in most engineering curricula. It focuses on the statistical techniques and methods of control and system optimization needed for the mathematical modeling, analysis, simulation, control and optimization of...

This book explores the gender dimension in technology commercialization through a collection of papers by internationally renowned scholars in the USA, Mexico and Europe. Technology, Commercialization and Gender looks at various gender imbalances in this key innovation area and demonstrates that...

Missy Maker is a middle school girl who loves math and fashion. She sees math in everything she does. She tries to hide this from her friends, because she thinks it’s too geeky. Missy hears that the school math club needs more members, but she’s worried about what her friends will think if...

Since the days of Lev Pontryagin and his associates, the discipline of Optimal Control has enjoyed a tremendous upswing - not only in terms of its mathematical foundations, but also with regard to numerous fields of application, which have given rise to highly active research areas. Few...