Introducing the concept of innovation capital we will analyse conditions under which a national industry is able to succeed in international Schumpeterian competition. Then we will discuss the significance of this concept for the economic development of the German plastics industry from the...

Gute Kommunikationsstrategien, die die jeweiligen Besonderheiten von Unternehmen und anderen Organisationen berücksichtigen, zählen zu den unternehmerischen Erfolgsbedingungen. Voraussetzung ist, dass sie aus den Unternehmensstrategien abgeleitet und nicht losgelöst von diesen entwickelt und...

Housing cooperatives have to meet big challenges. They are well known as providers of aff ordable and safe housings. But now ensuring the energy procurement for their members has increased in relevance. New economic and political developments threaten investments in new houses and energetic...

Der vorliegende Text analysiert die Funktionsweise von Strategischen Allianzen im Zusammenhang von „Strategie“ und „operativer Umsetzung“. Hintergrund ist eine oftmals strategielastige Debatte und die Vernachlässigung operativer Aspekte in der Kooperationsliteratur. Im Mittelpunkt steht...

We develop a model of strategic networks that captures two distinctive features of interfirm collaboration: bilateral agreements and nonexclusive relationships. Our analysis highlights the relationship between market competition, firms' incentives to invest in R&D, and the architecture of...

Inter-firm collaboration in R&D is not a new phenomenon. What is new, however, is the rapid increase in such collaboration since the 1980s in parallel with increasing competition. Terms like “strategic R&D alliances” or “alliance capitalism” have been coined to conceptualise these...

Das IfM Bonn untersucht anhand einer repräsentativen Trendstudie für den Zeitraum 2007 bis 2017, wie KMU dem demografischen Wandel begegnen. Demnach sind die KMU aktuell besser als 2007 über den demografischen Wandel informiert. Die Mehrheit der KMU hat ihre Absatzstrategie an die bereits...

Cooperation can benefit and hurt firms at the same time. An important question then is: when is it better to cooperate. And how can an appropriate partner be selected? In this paper we present a model of inter-firm cooperation driven by cognitive distance, appropriability conditions and external...

This study is concerned with the factors that influence the cooperation among cluster-based firms. Theorists have consistently demonstrated the role and importance of economic externalities, such as knowledge spillovers, within industrial clusters. Less attention has been paid to the...