Öfter mal was Neues - Wie geht eigentlich Innovation? Menschen unterschiedlichster, auch fachfremder Disziplinen an einen Tisch zu bringen, damit diese gemeinsam eine innovative Lösung erarbeiten? Was erst einmal utopisch klingt, wurde bereits in den 70er Jahren an der Standford University als...

Lessons from and for the creative professions of art, science, design, and engineering: how to live in and with the Plenitude, that dense, knotted ecology of human-made stuff that creates the need for more of itself.

This paper analyses the process of knowledge growth in a branch of medical science. Our study of scientific advances in glaucoma research is organized in two parts. In the first we present a qualitative overview of the problem sequences that have characterized 150 years of medical research in...

Children are therapeutic orphans and an underprivileged group in innovations derived from drug therapy. As the innovation process of pharmaceuticals is a long, risky and very costly business, economists typically emphasise lack of profit incentives and small market size as the most important...