Research infrastructures (RIs) are the most powerful means to foster cooperation on a pan-European scale and to provide efficient access to advanced methods and technologies for the scientific community.The existence, availability and easy access to leading research infrastructures is a key...

Lange Zeit war es in Deutschland umstritten, ob die Mobilfunkbetreiber hinsichtlich der Terminierung von Gesprächen in ihrem Netz als marktbeherrschend einzuschätzen seien. Bis vor einiger Zeit hatte die Bundesnetzagentur diese Frage verneint und war zu der Einschätzung gelangt, dass die...

The mobile data communication is a much discussed topic since several years. So far, there are nosweeping applications established yet. This work investigates successful business models in themobile internet and the relevant general conditions regarding market, technological and useracceptance...

Eine Routenplaner/Ticketing-Anwendung als Killerapplikation: Ausgehend von dieserÜberlegung wurde eine Befragung durchgeführt, anhand derer die kritischen Faktorender Akzeptanz eines solchen Dienstes ermittelt werden sollten.Die Visualisierung dieser Ergebnisse mittels des DART-Ansatzes soll...

This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India andinvestigates likely mechanisms. A recent OECD-dominated literature shows that mortality atmost ages is pro-cyclical but similar analyses for poorer countries are scarce, and bothincome risk and mortality...

Motivated by the different development stages of both, the venture capital (VC) as well as the life science industry in the USA and Europe, we investigate portfolio strategies of US-American and European VC firms active in this sector. We analyse portfolios of 88 VCs financing a total of 1050...

This report presents the outcomes of the “Pilot on eHealth Indicators” study,carried out by empirica in association with IPSOS on behalf of the EuropeanCommission, Information Society and Media Directorate-General. The dataused for this report were collected by means of a survey of primary...