In der vorliegenden Studie werden die Erfolgsfaktoren von regionalen Innovationsprozessen dargelegt, indem sie die räumlichen Aspekte des Innovationsprozesses ins Auge nimmt. Sie fragt speziell nach den Voraussetzungen der sächsischen Ballungszentren für die Herausbildung neuer Kerne...

This doctoral thesis, organized in three self-contained chapters, provides an analysis of the economic effects associated with the extraction of natural resources and the transition from an economy based on fossil fuel use to an economy relying primarily on renewable energy sources. Chapter 1...

This volume was prepared by Benedikt Heid while he was working at the ifo Institute and the University of Bayreuth. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained...