The Analytic Network Process -- Forecasting the Resurgence of the U.S. Economy in 2001: An Expert Judgement Approach -- An Analytic Network Process Model for Financial-Crisis Forecasting -- Outsourcing a Firm's Application Development Group -- ANWR: Artic National Wildlife Refuge, an ANP...

This book offers a simple introduction to the fundamentals and applications of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) without a pre-requisite for a sophisticated mathematical background. It provides a quick and intuitive understanding of the methodology using spreadsheet examples and explains in a...

The Analytic Network Process (ANP) developed by Thomas Saaty in his work on multicriteria decision making applies network structures with dependence and feedback to complex decision making. This book is a selection of applications of ANP to economic, social and political decisions, and also to...

This book presents for the first time a detailed and comprehensive interpretation of Zhongguancun, China’s first national self-dependent innovation demonstration zone. Explored in the book are examples of world-class, leading enterprises in fields, such as the Internet, big data, artificial...

This collection of expert articles explores the development drivers of new technology-based firms and projects. It provides perspectives for an in-depth understanding of how technological inventions lead to the creation of new and sustainable companies or business units. The authors address...

This monograph provides theoretical and practical perspectives on competency management as a key resource for producing competitive products. The authors develop and substantiate a law of dependence between competencies and emergence of new markets, and describe the practical aspects of...

This book focuses on the theory and practice involved in the management of innovative activities that enhance the competitiveness of enterprises, industries and economies. It presents a multi-criteria approach to the problem of selecting effective innovative projects and innovative technologies...

Michael Wustmans liefert anhand von vier Fallstudien praktische Einblicke in die Umsetzung und Weiterentwicklung der Patent Intelligence von technologieorientierten Unternehmen, denen unterschiedliche Mittel für die Erschließung von Wissen aus Patentdaten zur Verfügung stehen. Durch die...

This volume of selected articles is being released in light of the new economic, social and environmental challenges Europe and the United States have been faced with following the end of the Cold War and in the evolving era of globalization. National security, immigration, and the provision of...

Die Digitale Revolution führt zu tiefgreifenden Veränderungen in der Wirtschaft. Produktzyklen werden immer kürzer. Marktveränderungen vollziehen sich häufiger und schneller. Früher war dieses Phänomen auf Hightech-Sektoren beschränkt. Inzwischen sind fast alle Branchen davon betroffen....