Die Techniken und Methoden des Virtual Engineering bieten die Chance auf frühzeitig verfügbare, realistische Produktdarstellungen. Diese Produktdarstellungen können als virtuelle Stimuli in Kundentests eingesetzt werden. Ziel der Kundentests ist die Bewertung der Akzeptanz neuer...

This study was prepared by Nadine Fabritz while she was working at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in the Department for Human Capital and Innovation. It was completed in June 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in October...

This dissertation consists of five distinct empirical papers covering two large areas of research that are rather independent from each other: the economics of ageing and the economics of innovation. The first three chapters cover the impact of intergeneration interaction on the parents of adult...