Wechselwirkungen von Wissen, Macht und Organisationsstrukturen strategisch zu nutzen ist zu einem zentralen Thema der Globalisierung geworden. In diesem Kräftefeld werden wichtige und folgenreiche Innovationen generiert – allerdings, so zeigt diese Untersuchung, in durchaus variablen...

Der Band beinhaltet die Vorträge des Symposiums der Karl Heinz Beckurts-Stiftung am 21./22.10.1996 in Bonn. Inhalt: Afting, Ernst-Günter: Globalisierung der Forschung in pharmazeutischen Unternehmen. - Albach, Horst:Wirtschaftspolitische und technologiepolitische Folgen der Globalisierung. -...

Innovation is considered to be an important determinant of performance at the firm, indus-try and country level. This view is supported by empirical evidence showing the importance of innovative activities on firm and industry performance and country growth rates. The majority of the world’s...

The topic of the dissertation is the relationship between knowledge spillovers and firms' likelihood to co-operate on R&D and innovation activities. The analysis contains two parts: A review of relevant theoretical and empirical literature and an empirical part that analyses the relationship...

Literature suggests that location should matter for R&D activities. However, attempts to empirically detect differences in innovation activity between regions have so far been rather unsuccessful. Using a unique data set which contains comparable information about manufacturing enterprises in...