Do political decentralisation and inter state competition favour innovation and growth? There has long been a lively debate surrounding this question, going back to David Hume and Immanuel Kant. This book is a new attempt to test its veracity. The existing literature tends to assume that the...

The past three decades have witnessed rapid economic growth and a fascinating transformation of China's economy and industry, from an economy dominated by agriculture to one that is referred to as a 'world manufacturing plant', from a small exporter of resource- and unskilled labour-intensive...

Innovation ist für die Zukunftsfähigkeit wichtig und wird in vielen Ländern Europas mit unterschiedlichen Strategien gefördert. Diese unterscheiden sich auf den ersten Blick weniger durch das Instrumententarium, sondern durch Zugang, Politikmix und inhaltliche Schwerpunkte. Der Band will die...