'This is an original and very well structured and informative book. Its particular interest stems from the multidimensional and detailed analysis of a set of core technologies and their uneven diffusion process in eight countries of quite different levels of development. It challenges received...

Foresight has experienced a great upswing in the last few years, partly in view of the Millenium. Innovations for our Future describes not only the big development trends of the future in research and technology, but also the re-discovery of the Delphi method. The Delphi method is not new, but...

Neue Ausgabe des 'Atlas der Globalisierung' zum Thema Postwachstumsgesellschaft mit über 300 Karten und Grafiken. Wirtschaftswachstum gilt als Allheilmittel im modernen Kapitalismus. Doch auf einem begrenzten Planeten kann es kein unbegrenztes Wachstum geben. So kann es nicht weitergehen. Aber...

"Before the arrival of the 21st century, Taiwan was widely regarded as a successful model of a country which had not only transformed herself from an under-developed economy into a high-tech industrialised island, but also undergone a revolution from an authoritarian regime to a democratic one....