Pt. 1. Management of uncertainty : key to innovation -- pt. 2. Developing skills, work systems, work processes : an innovative challenge -- pt. 3. Innovative capability and change of work -- pt. 4. Intellectual capital : human potential as factor of innovation -- pt. 5. Findings from the German...

Research and development (R and D) leads to innovation, and innovation leads to technological change. Technological change, in turn, is the primary driver of economic growth. Public/private partnerships -- cooperative relationships among industry, government, and/or universities -- leverage the...

Modern macroeconomics suffers from an unclear link between short-term Keynesian analysis and long-term growth modelling. This book presents a new link between monetary analysis and growth modelling in open economies. Structural change, innovations and growth are considered from a new...

The Korean government believes it can turn the country into one of the top 10 competitive economies by 2010. This volume offers an in-depth analysis of the Korean innovation system and shows how its science and technology policies actually work. As Korea's economy is now reaching the status of a...

States that modern macroeconomics suffers from an unclear link between short-term Keynesian analysis and long-term growth modeling. This book maintains that analysis suggests fresh approaches to innovations in open economies in many ways, including the Schumpeterian Mundell-Fleming model and new...

Despite the accelerating pace of globalization, it is impossible to ignore the marginalization of the developing world, as billions of people continue to slip deeper into poverty. While many theories, policies, and practices have been proposed to help redress the disparities between the 'haves'...

Problemstellung und Ziel der Untersuchung -- Stand der Forschung: ein Literaturüberblick -- Forschungsleitende Hypothesen und Wirkungsmodell -- Fallstudien -- Telefonische Breitenbefragung -- Schlussfolgerungen und Handlungsempfehlungen.