Eine gesicherte Versorgung mit umweltfreundlicher und preisgünstiger Energie ist für unser Leben unverzichtbar. Dabei erfordert das Ziel nachhaltiger Entwicklung insbesondere die Erschließung erneuerbarer Energien. Biomasse ist eine wirtschaftlich besonders günstig zu erschließende Quelle...

This paper investigates to what extent the different subsectors of the knowledge economy are subject to sector-specific spatial patterns of employment dynamics, and whether these patterns are conditional upon the general economic climate in a particular region. To this end, we analyze and...

Mainstream sociological theory relates right-wing extremism to a situation in which losers of modernization emerge from a rapidly changing social and demographic environment as well as from structural economic change (the reinforcement of core-periphery patterns and the decline of manufacturing...

There is a broad consensus in the literature in that R&D is a precondition for innovation and in turn, for economic growth. On the regional level, this implies that regions with a high stock of R&D should reveal better results when it comes to economic performance. This presumption has lead...