In the past, most companies in the European apparel industry focused on minimizing manufacturing costs in the design of supply chains in conjunction with long-distance shipping from production sites in the Far East and relatively long production cycles. Today, for some market segments, the speed...

Agent-based simulation has become an established method for innovation and technology diffusion research. It extends traditional approaches by modeling diffusion processes from a micro-level perspective, which enables the consideration of various heterogeneous stakeholders and their diverse...

Angesichts der gestiegenen Bedeutung von gewerblichen Schutzrechten sowie der Abschaffung des Hochschullehrerprivilegs in vielen Ländern sind Universitäten zunehmend an der Anmeldung der Erfindungen ihrer Wissenschaftler als akademische Patente interessiert. Das kann vielfältige Auswirkungen...

Nowadays, almost every worldwide operating car rental company provides the service of delivering vehicles to customers and picking them up after the rental period. The use of vehicle trailers for this purpose within a city is in most cases too expensive and very time-consuming. This poses new...