This article examines the hypothesis that in the “Third Reich”, bureaucratic agencies engaged in economic policies competed with each other. First, a model of competition is constructed whose predictions are then compared with actual political processes in Nazi Germany. This shows that the...

The quality of British entrepreneurship in the half century before 1914 excitescontroversy. Contemporaries were of mixed minds about the matter. Alfred Marshall(1920: 92-106), for example, was uneasy about the competitive inroads entrepreneursfrom other advanced industrial countries had made...

We find little support for the Schumpeterian hypothesis of a positiverelationship between market power and innovation in 1950’s Britain eventhough many economists and policymakers accepted it at the time. Pricefixingagreements were very widespread prior to the 1956 RestrictivePractices Act and...

den letzten Monaten und Jahren wird insbesondere in den USA aber auchin Europa eine intensive Diskussion darüber geführt, inwiefern die bisherpraktizierte Gleichbehandlung der Datenpakete im Internet regulatorischfestgeschrieben werden sollte (vgl. z.B. Hahn & Wallsten, 2006; Sidak,2006; van Schewick,...

The travel of small facts (such as data) across geographicallocations and disciplines is increasingly regulated by the private andpublic sponsors of digital databases. My analysis focuses on thecontrast between the strategies supported by the public and privatesectors in governing bioinformatic...

In diesem Beitrag werden zwei verschiedene Skalen zur Durchführung von Teilnehmerbewertungenin Ideenwettbewerben auf ihre Validität untersucht. Dafürwerden diese mit einer unabhängigen, validierten Expertenbewertung verglichen.Auf Basis von Kreuztabellen wird gezeigt, dass eine einfache...

Ideas competitions appear to be a promising tool for crowdsourcing andopen innovation processes, especially for business-to-business software companies.Active participation of potential lead users is the key to success. Yet a look at existingideas competitions in the software field leads to the...