Innovationsprozesse festgelegt werden. (Innovation is seen as an important economic strategy for a company’s management. We discuss the … question how far works councils could positively influence a company’s innovation strategy in the long term and how far they … could encourage workers to participate in innovation processes. The objective of this article is, in particular, to analyse …

Epistemic arguments play a significant role in Hayek's defense of market liberalism. His claim that market competition … existing knowledge is supplemented by the idea that markets are also most effectively creating new knowledge. However, in his … assessment Hayek neglects the role of new technological knowledge. He ignores that the discovery procedure induces not only price …

learningbydoing and organizational forgetting in R&D on firms' incentives to innovate. A dynamic step-by-step innovation model with … history dependency is developed. Firms can accumulate knowledge by investing in R&D. As a benchmark without knowledge …, the leader's R&D effort increases with the gap as she is trying to avoid competition in the future. When firms gain …

This paper describes how entrepreneurial firms can use superior architectural knowledge to open up a technical system …

-doing and organizational forgetting in R&D on firms' incentives to innovate. I develop a dynamic step by step innovation model … with history dependency. Firms can accumulate knowledge by investing in R&D. As a benchmark I show that without knowledge … accumulation the leader's R&D effort increases with the gap as she is trying to avoid competition in the future. When firms gain …

knowledge base approach in empirical innovation studies, regardless of industrial, geographical or temporal context. The paper … thereby dismisses the wide-spread taxonomical application of knowledge base conceptualizations in innovation studies and …This paper has three aims. Firstly, to provide a critical review of previous conceptualizations of the knowledge base …

The concepts of market, economic concentration, concurrent with competition mechanisms are key elements to market …

D. Kurz (eds). Volume 3. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, forthcoming. We analyze competition as … rivarly in a race, as a specific market structure, and as a discovery procedure. We also explore the relation of competition … with class struggle and competition policy. …