"This book explores solutions to gender inequality in the information and communication technologies fields. It also highlights some historical pioneers and their contributions, and at the same time draw out the social and cultural circumstances that have contributed to the "lack" of women in...

The German research system is functionally differentiated into various institutional pillars, most importantly the university system and the extra-university sector including institutes of the Helmholtz Association, the Max Planck Society, the Leibniz Association and the Fraunhofer Society....

This article investigates the emergence of nano S&T in Germany. Using multiple longitudinal data sets, we describe the complete set of research institutions and companies that entered this science-based technology field and the development of their inter-organisational networks between 1991 and...