The European Commission has recently stepped up its promotion of the ?Integrated Product Policy?. The objective of the IPP is to support the realisation of environmental product innovations and thus to achieve a broad reduction of all environmental impacts throughout a product?s life cycle....

As is well-recognized, market dominance is a typical outcome in markets with network effects. A firm with a larger installed base others a more attractive product which induces more consumers to buy its product which produces a yet bigger installed base advantage. Such a setting is investigated...

Für ein differenziertes Verständnis erfolgreicher Innovationsstrategien und -systeme ist es erforderlich, regional und sektoral spezifische Muster in den Blick zu nehmen. Zudem gilt es, den Innovationsbegriff nicht auf den Bereich der Produktinnovation zu verengen, sondern auch innovative...