1 Introduction -- 2 International Diffusion of Innovations: Overviews of Literature -- 3 Foundations of Lead Markets -- 4 The Case of Cellular Mobile Telephony -- 5 Harnessing Lead Markets for Global Innovations -- 6 Discussion, Limitations and Further Research -- 7 Epilogue: Implications for...

This book contains a theoretical and empirical analysis of the sources of technological change and economic growth. The first part takes an aggregate view at the growth process. Scale economies and knowledge spillovers are analysed with a broad panel of sectoral data for Germany and the United...

Corporate valuation using multiples is one of the most popular corporate valuation approaches. In this book, the different steps of this valuation approach such as the selection of comparable companies or the choice of the reference variables are discussed. Then, the circumstances required for a...

Innovation-oriented environmental regulation is extremely attractive for policy planners and decision makers, since it is expected that innovations can cut costs of environmental measures and overcome existing trade-offs between economic and ecological goals. The central question is, however,...