Im Rahmen des ECOVIN-Projekts des Instituts für Produktion und Industrielles Informationsmanagement der Universität GH Essen beschäftigt sich unser Team u.a. mit Instrumenten, die eine systematische Suche, Auswahl und Bewertung von Informationen im Internet ermöglichen. Von besonderer...

The paper studies why a corporation hopes to keep technological leadership. The answer is shown by a theoretical model in the perspective of technological transfer. The model consisting of two countries, each of which contains numerous corporations,has pointed out: restrained technological...

Der Prozess der vertikalen Spezialisierung ist eine Entwicklung, die sich vor allem in techno-logieintensiven, dynamischen Branchen durchzusetzen scheint. Der Trend zur vertikalen Spezialisierung geht einher mit einer verstärkten Fremdvergabe von Wertschöpfungsleistun-gen an externe Zulieferer...

Today rural sector reform is a paramount issue in Indonesian development. Yet, different social actorshave different perspectives and stances towards it. Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) inIndonesia have established themselves in pivotal positions in the social, economic and...

Our contribution to the expanding literature on the globalization of research andinnovation is to investigate the extent to which sector-specific developments in anemerging technology (such as increasing interdisciplinarity and complexity) affectinventive activities developed abroad. We look at...

Globalisation is ambivalent. On the one hand, it brings prosperity, comfort and convenience in the formof economic growth, technological advancement, more open and democratic governance, and so forth.On the other hand, there are vast amounts of casualties from its progress, which only benefits...

We consider an industry where one firm with a superior technology competes for market shares with several rivals. The owner of the superior technology (the dominant firm) can license or transfer the source of its dominance to a subset of rivals. Allowing the non-license takers to remain active...

In this essay I compare two different theoretical frameworks in economics for orientinganalysis of issues in technology policy. One is a neoclassical framework that sees appropriatepolicies as dealing with “market failures”. The other framework is provided by an evolutionaryand institutional...

There is no doubt that innovation is nowadays the main determinant ofeconomic growth and that the human resource is as a crucial factor of the process ofinnovation.As the role played by this factor the mainstream viewpoint emphasizes labourmarket rigidities in the explanation of cross-countries...