Smart Specialisation-Strategien (3S) stellen einen neuen Ansatz im Kontext der Europäischen Industrie- und Regionalpolitik dar. Dies sind wirtschaftspolitische Maßnahmen, die darauf abzielen, neue Spezialisierungen auf der Grundlage bestehender räumlich und technologisch konzentrierter...

The concepts social innovation and social entrepreneurship have gained considerable attention both in different fields of academic research and in the context of the development of economic and social policies. However, despite its wide-spread use there does not exist a unique or at least widely...

The research project WWWforEurope undertakes to lie the theoretical and empirical foundations for the embarkment on a new socio-ecological growth path in Europe. The new path underlines the need to guarantee Welfare as a broad universal principle for its population, assuring economic and social...

The development of "green" industries is commonly seen as a necessary even though not sufficient condition for the transition towards ecologically sustainable paths of economic development. It is also a recurrent view that pro-active and successful policy action in this domain will not only...

This paper examines whether PageRank algorithms are a valid instrument for the analysis of technical progress in specific technological fields by means of patent citation data. It provides evidence for patent data in biotechnology. Recent literature has been critical with regard to the use of...

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A growing empirical literature indicates that outsourcing can deliver short term cuts in costs but leads to a long term loss of productivity growth. In order to explain this outsourcing productivity paradox, the paper examines the connection between total outsourcing and organisational...

This paper gives a selective overview on contributions studying issues of complexity, near-decomposability and modularity in relation to economic behaviour and the theory of the firm. In the first part the paper reviews contributions studying the relationship between human problem solving in the...