Before being adopted internationally, successful innovation designs tend to have been preferred in one particular country or region. These countries or regions can subsequently be labelled as Lead Markets. This paper employs a Lead Market approach to assess for each of the 25 European Union...

Before being adopted internationally, successful innovation designs tend to have been preferred in one particular country or region. These countries or regions can subsequently be labelled as Lead Markets. This paper employs a Lead Market approach to assess for each of the 25 European Union...

Zufällig schwankende Nachfragen nach Vorprodukten bzw. Teilen und Komponenten machen die Verwendung von stochastischen Modellen der Lagerhaltung notwendig. Das vorliegende Papier beschreibt einen standardisierten algorithmischen Ansatz, mit dem der Verbrauch von Vorprodukten für die Zeiträume...

In environmental policy first mover advantages for environmental technologiesare often taken for granted. It is a popular view to see the state as a political entrepreneur who introduces a certain environmental policy instrument, e.g. feed-in tariffs for renewable energies, and thus becomes the...