Building on recent work on the political and societal impact of economics and distinct economists, respectively, this chapter aims to examine individual, research and institutional characteristics as well as existing professional networks of what are considered to be "influential economists" in...

The paper compares academic and corporate patents in Germany to shed light on the geographical distribution of the inventors. The residences of the inventors show different patterns in the two datasets. Furthermore, we analyze the spatial distance between inventors for patents invented in...

Das Buch stellt die wichtigsten Aspekte des Aufbaus und Managements von Wissenscommunitys mittels Social Media vor und beantwortet dabei die Fragen "Was sind Enterprise 2.0 und Social Media?", "Welche Auswirkungen haben sie auf das Wissensmanagement?". Das Buch bietet dazu eine kompakte,...