The paper provides an outline of the concept of regional growth regimes and empirically illustrates the relevance of the concept. The empirical examples are entrepreneurship, entry and the performance of new businesses in East and West Germany. The differences of the factors determining the...

Despite the fragility of authoritative governing institutions at the international level, the politi-cal capacity to deal with global risks is developing. The sense of legitimacy that will ultimately derive from a deeply transnational sense of shared fate continues to lag, but even in that...

Lately, a new trend has specially outreached on the Information Society that of Social Computing. Starting from a citizen-focused model of health seamless provision of services, this paper analyses some current Web 2.0 initiatives on the Health sector. These opportunities would not be fully...

This paper examines the issue of financing the social goal of universal access to the telephone network. There are many feasible methods of financing the subsidies involved. We show that alternative financing schemes differ in terms of their economic efficiency, equity, political attractiveness,...

The traffic in telephone networks is analyzed in this paper. Unlike the classical traffic analysis where call blockings are due to the limited channel capacity, we consider here a more realistic cause for call blockings which is due to the way in which users are networked in a real-life human...

Dieser Aufsatz beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie weit der Weg der neuen Bundesländer in die Informationsgesellschaft fortgeschritten ist. Dabei wird auf zwei Aspekte im besonderen eingegangen. Einmal wird die Telekommunikationsinfrastruktur, also die Information-Superhighways betrachtet, zum...

Assessment of students is achieved in a classical way thought paper with open questions or questions that the student choose the correct answer from a list provided in the question or the submission of projects completed during the school year. The results of the evaluation are provided in...

The development of information technology has brought about massive change in the way people conduct their daily activities. These changes are reflected in both in economics and consumer behavior. Mobile applications come to support consumers in their daily activities, but it also implies new...

The evolution of today's mobile devices increases the number of mobile applications developed, and among them the mobile learning applications. Mobile hardware and software platforms allow running of faster and richer applications. This paper presents the main steps in development of a...