Annotation, Argues that, in order to address the growing economic, social, and political pressures of the 21st Century, China will have to build solid foundations for a knowledge-based economy by updating the economic and institutional regime, upgrading education and learning, and building...

The key message of this book is that heterogeneity should be seen as an intrinsic and indispensable element of knowledge systems. The authors address the concept of heterogeneity in a multi-disciplinary fashion, including perspectives from evolutionary economics and innovation system studies,...

Der Bericht widerlegt mit den Ergebnissen des ifo Innovationstests die These, daß Deutschland eine Technologie-, Innovations- und Wettbewerbskrise durchlebt. Die Befragungen wurden in Ost- und Westdeutschland durchgeführt und zeigen, daß 1993 drei Viertel der deutschen Industrieunternehmen...