Bei der Analyse der rückläufigen Innovations- und Wachstumsdynamik moderner Volkswirtschaften lassen sich neben ökonomischen Ursachen auch kulturelle bzw. ethische Einflussfaktoren feststellen. Edmund Phelps hat in seiner Theorie zur Innovationsfähigkeit der Marktwirtschaft die Bedeutung...

There is no doubt that intellectual property should be protected because it is particularly vulnerable to "stealing". However, under the law for some time this "protection" is used to make profit by "Not Practicing Entities" - (the NPE's) also called Patent Trolls. Activity of Patent Trolls...

Proponents of minority shareholder protection state that national legal institutions protecting small investors boost stock markets and, in turn, long-term countries' performance. In this paper, we empirically challenge this argument. We perform three-stage least-square estimation on a sample of...

This paper argues that the traditional societal contract that underlies the market economy has run its course and needs to be replaced by a new contract, based on a new conception of the "empowering economy." Whereas different societal contracts are relevant to different societies, there must be...

The present study investigates the relatively successful development of the homegrown IT industry in Poland since the early 1990s. The case is theoretically interesting because it runs counter to the dominant perspective on the economic systems in postcommunist Central Europe, which emphasizes...

During the second half of the twentieth century economists have build newer models of economic growth that consider policy influences of growth and divergent outcomes among countries. These models address issues concerning economic growth, operation of financial markets, trade policy, government...

Bei der Analyse der rückläufigen Innovations- und Wachstumsdynamik moderner Volkswirtschaften lassen sich neben ökonomischen Ursachen auch kulturelle bzw. ethische Einflussfaktoren feststellen. Edmund Phelps hat in seiner Theorie zur Innovationsfähigkeit der Marktwirtschaft die Bedeutung...

Although many economists do a serious and respectable work, main stream economic theory contains an almost complete disregard for the importance of social, cultural and political structures which are the very foundation of the society. Worse than that, such disregard is developed into arrogance...

This paper reflects on the potential of future-oriented analysis (FTA) to address major change and to support decision-makers and other stakeholders in anticipating and dealing with transformations. It does so by critically reflecting on the selected papers for this special issue as well as on...

The existence of a fundamental relationship between invention, innovation, and economic growth, as insisted upon by Schumpeter, is increasingly taken as an article of faith in nations around the world. Yet the inventions-to-growth relationship is today more complex and less bounded at the scale...