[Einleitung und Fragestellung] Die Digitalisierung ermöglicht, dass Nutzerinnen und Nutzer eine immer wichtigere Rolle im Innovationsgeschehen spielen. Darüber sind sich Innovationsforschung und Manage-mentliteratur einig. Allerdings ist unklar, wie weit die Öffnung von Innovationsprozessen...

Diese Studie analysiert die Bedeutung von Schlüsseltechnologien für die wirtschaftlich-gesellschaftliche Entwicklung in Deutschland. Sie erläutert die Entwicklung und Zielsetzung des Begriffs und entwickelt eine Heuristik zur Bestimmung von Technologien, die in diesem Sinne aktuell relevant...

Die großen gesellschaftlichen Herausforderungen, die "Grand Challenges", fordern eine Missionsorientierte Innovationspolitik. Wir möchten hierzu einen konzeptionellen Beitrag leisten und zentrale Bausteine benennen.

The major problems facing society, the so-called »Grand Challenges«, call for mission-oriented innovation policy. We aim to make a conceptual contribution here and identify the main components.

This study covers two topics: (1) the analysis of international inventor mobility and cooperation with the focus on Germany; (2) a mobility analysis for researchers in critical career positions in the German research system (professors in German universities, directors of non-university public...

Universities can contribute to knowledge-based regional development not only in their home region but also in other regions. In a number of countries, universities have established university satellite institutes in additional (host) regions to promote research and technology transfer there. We...

Large and economically diverse countries often face a problem of regional imbalances which goes beyond a simple division between a core and a periphery. In large countries regions "out of the core" demonstrate substantial variety in economic, social and cultural terms, they have difference...

[Introduction] In recent years, the debate on the digitalisation of industry has gained momentum not only in the political, but also in the academic sphere. As part of a broader debate on the digitisation of life, it has touched upon many relevant dynamics of industrial transformation that will,...

The empirical sub-sections of this article have shown that the both production and technology oriented clusters are a very diverse and regionally embedded phenomenon. Within this context, the observed diversity of political strategies and support measures whose ultimate goal is to 'generate...