Die im Koalitionsvertrag skizzierte Innovationspolitik stellt einen Übergang zwischen traditioneller und transformativer Politik dar. Die aktuelle deutsche Innovationspolitik zeichnet sich, neben unternehmenszentrierten Maßnahmen, vor allem durch die Ausrichtung auf gesamtgesellschaftliche...

In line with the growing relevance of higher education and science for societal development and innovation processes, there has been a steady increase in the salience of interrelations with the extra-academic environment in the context of academics' work. Insights into the status of this...

Das Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, den bisherigen Stand des Wissens zu Regional Governance darzustellen und neu zu systematisieren. Dazu werden die praktischen Möglichkeiten der empirischen Forschung aber auch Restriktionen für Wirkungsanalysen verdeutlicht. Es gibt keine allgemein anerkannte...

In this paper, we attempt to explore the extent to which the hard won development gains over the last several years could be reversed due to the unfolding COVID-19 global pandemic, how we can reboot the global response to accelerate the SDGs in times of uncertainties, and most importantly how to...

Purpose: In this article we aim to model social media users' behavior in relation with the use of specified Facebook pages and groups, related to eHealth, specifically to healthy diet and sport activities. The study represents to the best of our knowledge the first region-focused on a specific...

We identify an important feature of current digital governance systems: "third-party funded digital barter": consumers of digital services get many digital services for free (or underpriced) and in return have personal information about themselves collected for free. In addition, the digital...

Challenge funds (CF) induce competition between grant applicants as they develop proposals to address important social problems. We develop a game theoretic model to study how funding availability and proof of concept requirements (e.g., pilots or other forms of early stage screening) influence...

International NGO campaigns criticizing firms for infringements along their internationalized value chains are a salient feature of economic globalization. We argue that understanding the international patterns of NGO campaigns requires accounting for the geography of their targets' economic...

The presented Research Topic explores the potential of citizen science to contribute to the development of social innovations. It sets the ground for analysis of mutual relations between two strong and embedded in the literature concepts: citizen science and social innovation. Simultaneously,...

This paper analyses the structures and patterns, dimensions and interest relations behind 200 years of working time negotiations and conflicts, based on historical and contemporary literature and research, mainly but not exclusively in Germany. One main thesis is that 'new' flexibilization...