Die Förderung der Außenwirtschaft ist überall ein wesentlicher Bestandteil der Wirtschaftspoltik. Das Instrumentarium ist auch in Deutschland immer wieder Gegenstand öffentlicher Diskussion und parlamentarischer Anfragen. Vorschläge für Reformen werden teilweise mit Forderungen nach einer...

The Information Society Unit of the JRC-IPTS has been investigating the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector and its R&D in Asia for several years as an extension of the PREDICT research project. The workshop was organised as part of this on-going research to gather the most...

This study contributes to the recent empirical literature on the performance of transnational immigrants' firms by investigating the effect of transnational ties on the firm's growth. In addition to the effect of the ties, the paper shows that home-country's institutional and socio-economic...

In this empirical study, I take the perspective of the firm in order to explore and understand forming and configuring interfirm cooperation, applying a firm’s alliance portfolio approach. The majority of studies have found interfirm cooperation to be crucial for acquiring resources,...

Theoretical and empirical analyses have, as yet, shed very little light on the role of ICT standards consortia in the standard setting landscape. Standards consortia are private industry alliances of likeminded organizations that share the same interest to sponsor, develop and standardize...