The educational environment specific to higher education is confronted with new and significant concerns and changes generated by the societal demands of the first 21st century decades. The formation of the new kind of man in general, of experts in particular, takes centre stage in dealing with...

В пособии излагаются основы теории бухгалтерского учета. Основное внимание уделено математическим основам, нормативно-правовой базе, принципам, методу и...

Der Beitrag ist ein Erfahrungsbericht aus der universitären Unterrichtspraxis der vergangenen 5 Jahre. In dem deutsch-japanischen Seminarprojekt 'DJ 50' wird mit wechselnden technischen und personellen Konstellationen versucht, eine optimale Lernplattform für eine internet-gestützte...

Recent discourse in the field of participatory agricultural research has focused on how to blend various forms and intensities of stakeholder participation with quality agricultural science, moving beyond the simple “farmer-first” ideology of the 1980s and early 1990s. Yet, most existing...

The net welfare benefit of the ‘brain drain’ of skilled workers depends on their propensity to return to their home countries. Yet, relatively little is known empirically about the return migration decisions of skilled workers. Here, I study a sample of 1460 foreign faculty in...

This paper details the construction of a firm-year panel dataset combining the NBER Patent Dataset with the Industry R&D Survey conducted by the Census Bureau and National Science Foundation. The developed platform offers an unprecedented view of the R&D-to-patenting innovation process and a...

Team size in scientific research and its geographic dispersion are important because research collaboration indicates the division of labor, and because collaboration is one channel of by which knowledge spills over. For both reasons, economic efficiency of the knowledge-creating industries is...

This article reviews beer production, consumption and the industrial organization of breweries throughout history. Monasteries were the centers of the beer economy in the early Middle Ages. Innovation and increased demand later induced the growth of commercial breweries. Globalization and...