Forschung und Entwicklung (FuE) sind in Deutschland auf die Verdichtungsräume konzentriert, 62 Prozent des FuE-Personals sind dort tätig. Bei der FuE-Intensität - also dem Anteil der FuE-Beschäftigten an allen Erwerbstätigen - führen mit großem Abstand die Regionen Stuttgart, München und...

The development of 3D printing enables the process of direct transfer of ideas (understood as digital vectors) into physical objects using only one universal device. Later these objects could be milled and the same material reused, allowing ideas for effective re-materialisation and...

The authors of this article established the goal to investigate parameters related to the staff motivation for engineering change in the industrial company as case study and to predict the ways of improving the performance of the company. Employees of the company can be more motivated to...

Der Strukturwandel am Arbeitsmarkt geht traditionell mit der Umverteilung von Arbeitskräften von schrumpfenden zu wachsenden Branchen und Unternehmen einher. Dies führt zur Beendigung alter und zur Schaffung neuer Arbeitsverhältnisse. Die digitale und ökologische Transformation bildet hier...

The adoption of wind energy has grown significantly in recent years. New, cost-effective technologies have been developed, led by customer awareness of green technologies and a legal framework proposed at the European Union level. The stochastic nature of wind speed is transferred to wind...

Based on Schumpeterian theoretical considerations, this paper investigates the innovation behavior of firms during the severe economic crisis of the year 2008/2009. It focuses on transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, which have completely restructured their...

Recently, outsourcing services has been an important component of the organizational strategy of service firms. However, most research studies mainly focus on analyzing the determining factors of outsourcing at the expense of its structural effects. The aim of this paper is to examine the extent...

The main purpose of this paper is to analyse the influence of previous experience and learning capabilities on survival in product and process innovation for Spanish manufacturing firms in the period 1990-2010. The authors find past and path dependence and confirm the important effect of R&D...

In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call "the...

Seit 1999 fördert das Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie (BMWi) im Programm "Förderung von innovativen Netzwerken (InnoNet)" größere Verbundprojekte zwischen öffentlichen Forschungseinrichtungen und mehreren kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen (KMU). Die Unternehmen kommen in...