Multiple studies validated effects of institutions on the diffusion of scientific innovations, but there is a lack in explaining emergence and change of institutions. The institutional entrepreneurship approach faces this limitations and models, how institutional entrepreneurs diffuse an...

Technologie-Roadmapping liefert das Handwerkszeug, um Zukunftsstrategien für Technologieunternehmen zu entwerfen. Es dient den Technologieunternehmen, die technologische Position im Zeitablauf weiterzuentwickeln, Marktchancen frühzeitig aufzuspüren und Ressourcen effizient einzusetzen....

Since Trippe [1] introduced the term 'patinformatics' a lot of progress has been made in this particular field of information science. However, there is still need for a more comprehensive framework to structure the variety of tasks related to 'patinformatics', to highlight essential functions...