Die Zeiten, in denen Computer nur eine Funktion hatten, sind vorbei: Heutige Computer sind Kommunikationsmittel, Zeitnehmer, Kalender, Musikinstrument und -abspielgerät, Notizblock, Ablagesystem, Spielzeug, Wettervorhersage und Visitenkarte in einem. Die Organisation der Computergesellschaft...

The concept of innovation is as omnipresent in the media, in politics and in the economy as it is intangible and fuzzy. Focusing on its technological dimension, we find a hybrid interplay of technological and social systems. Accordingly, we observe an ongoing and increasingly complex...

The direct link between innovation and economic markets seems to go without saying. The result of this is the close link between innovation and technological and economic advance. If we switch from innovation as a cause for prosperity and welfare to factors that have an impact on innovation, we...