Germany through firm-specific advantages. Still, some face significant challenges. A submarket analysis shows that home market … advantages are more deeply rooted in the Western part of Germany and that foreign competitors find a more accessible competitive … environment in Eastern Germany. Therefore, East Germany is a superior platform for deploying effective and efficient …

innovative technology within this trajectory. As for the diffusion of SC, the paper concentrates on Germany, USA, China and Japan … has established a lead market for SC technology. In the meanwhile, Japan has surpassed the United States, although it … comparative advantages in terms of prices, demand and market structure, Japan has caught up in terms of transfer advantage and …

large economies, USA, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Japan. The empirical results show that although the pure NGARCH …

, Germany, Japan and the USA taking into account the different regulation schemes in these countries. We concentrate on … leader in the market segment of low and middle quality boilers, whereas Japan and Germany still dominate the world turbine …. In the meanwhile, Japan has surpassed the United States, although it started as a typical lag market. Japan has caught up …