China's photovoltaics sector provides an interesting case to examine, if and how the country is aiming at innovation leadership after having established itself as the global manufacturing leader. Due to the dominance of Chinese companies in the global PV market, their innovation and production...

For more than a decade, advocates of both green growth and degrowth have argued about the role of economic growth for the transformation towards a societal system that ensures social well-being on a global scale without transgressing planetary boundaries. Given that such a transformation needs...

Die Additive Fertigung ist ein junges, dynamisches Feld der Technologieentwicklung, das durch die Einführung von 3D-Druckern populär wurde. Materialien werden Schicht für Schicht aufgetragen. So entstehen Objekte mit bisher kaum erreichten variablen Formen und filigranen inneren Strukturen....