Pan-Asianism in Japanese history has not received much scholarly attention so far. Indeed, as some scholars have pointed out (Beasley 1987a), it is questionable whether the notion of an ideology that only existed as a loose set of ideas and, moreover, had its foundations in European concepts,...

Bereits im Jahr 1993 hat das Institut Arbeit und Technik (IAT) eine empirische Untersuchung zu kooperativen Arbeitsstrukturen und Gruppenarbeit ind Deutschland durchgeführt. Die damaligen Ergebnisse sorgten für einige Aufmerksamkeit, zeigten sie doch, dass die Verbreitung von Gruppenarbeit...

Basic innovations are often fundamental to the development of applications that maybe developed by other innovators. In this setting, we investigate whether patent pools canrectify the lack of incentives for developers to invest in applications. Following Green andScotchmer (1995), we also...

This paper describes major external changes to the U.S. public agricultural researchsystem over 1988-1999; describes the reactions of the public agricultural research system to theexternal changes, specifying the innovations that have occurred over the last decade; and drawsconclusions about the present...

We construct and estimate a unified model combining three of the main sources of cross-country income disparities:[...]