Werden dual ausgebildete Laborantinnen und Laboranten in Zukunft noch gebraucht, oder geraten sie im Zeichen der Wissensgesellschaft auf's Abstellgleis? Nach den hier präsentierten Forschungsergebnissen erweist sich die berufliche Position von Chemie und Biologielaborantinnen und Laboraten als...

The city of Essen is located at the centre of the Ruhr area, one of the largest urban and industrial agglomerations in Europe. Like many places in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia Essen had to deal with tremendous structural changes due to the downturn of coal mining and the...

In recent years entrepreneurship in urban neighbourhoods, has drawn a growing attention of the research community as well as of urban planning (Mollenhorst et al. 2009). Entrepreneurship research is increasingly focussing on the manifold and intertwined contexts of entrepreneurial activities,...

In urban renewal policy, it has become a widespread goal to revitalise neighbourhood economies. The rationale for these measures derives, to a great extent, from the concept of regional economic clusters, and, not surprisingly, one of their key objectives is to activate local inter-firm...