Central concerns of research and innovation policies under uncertainty and systemic complexity are market and systemic failures, i.e. both market corrections as well as co-ordination and coherence are essential elements of policy making. Therefore, policy making cannot be based on the notions of...

Wie sich an vielen Beispielen in den neuen Bundesländern gezeigt hat, ist es durchaus möglich, daß ein hoher Bestand an technologischem Wissen ohne großen ökonomischen Erfolg einhergeht. Die Autorin versucht, diesen Widerspruch mit Hilfe des Konzepts der "unternehmerischen Kompetenz" zu...

In this paper, we examine firm innovation and its link to firm growth. Instead of using the conventional conceptualization and operationalization of innovation in terms of the R&D budget, we use a more elaborate 12-dimensional conceptualization, which takes into account also the...