Problem solving through design of systems and physical artifacts is a professional activity with major financial significance. Problems in modern society tend to grow more complex and intricate, and as a response, systems grow larger. Therefore, design increasingly has also become a...

This paper investigates domestic and foreign innovating firms' determinants of R&D collaboration with domestic universities and public knowledge institutes in Finland and the Netherlands. We put particular emphasis on the impact of incoming academic spillovers on the probability to co-operate...

In this paper, it is argued that the inconclusiveness in previous empirical studies on the relationship between antipollution standards and foreign trade is due to inaccurate variables used to represent environmental regulations strictness. Two variables of environmental policy stringency are...