duality of production theory is applied. Estimating the system of cost share equations derived from a translog cost function …

given by different sponsors (the federal government, the Länder and the European Union). Recent theory stresses the … importance of the interactions and linkages among acteurs and institutions involved in innovation and technology development of a … country and calls such a web of interaction a national innovation system. The theoretical and empirical analyses on national …

the co-evolution of sectoral regulation and technological innovation in the detergents industry in Europe. We view as … which we focus on technological change. We argue that the innovation and regulation processes are evolutionary processes … recognized as a factor conductive to innovation and in this sense, we can witness a circular and interactive relationship between …

relation to the innovation process and its outcomes. This theme is firmly rooted in the Schumpeterian tradition in which an …