Recent studies have identified that employees can be lead users of their employing firm's products, and valuable sources of product...

Absorbing external knowledge is crucial for innovation within the organization. One way of tapping external knowledge sources is to...

We present empirical evidence suggesting that technological progress in the digital age will be biased not only with respect to skills...

Digital technologies will both create new jobs and replace existing ones. To cope with increasing labor market dynamics in the digital...

Extant research emphasizes that consumers use mass customization toolkits to create products they consider to be unique, and that...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 111: The authors analyse whether the German initiative “InterSpiN” is an appropriate policy tool to enhance...

Since the mid-1990s German technology policy has experienced a paradigmatic shift from standard grant schemes towards a...

Digital technologies will both create new jobs and replace existing ones. To cope with increasing labor market dynamics in the digital...

We present empirical evidence suggesting that technological progress in the digital age will be biased not only with respect to skills...

This paper analyzes the impact of different individual skills and their economy-wide distribution among heterogenous entrepreneurs on...

By using nonparametric and panel data econometrics, this paper re-assesses the effect of both the current level of economic activity...

The internet is the new mass medium that affects many aspects of everyday life. Empirical evidence during the initial phase of the...

In this article we analyze the interdependent issues of urbanization, growth, and globalization by presenting key empirical facts and...

While African countries are becoming more and more relevant as host countries for suppliers of multinational companies little is known...

Nanotechnologies (together with biotechnology, information and cognitive sciences) belong to the so-called converging technologies...

Nanotechnologies are expected to be the dominant general purpose technology of the next decades. Their market potential is immense and...

The possibility to outsource over the internet should revolutionize foreign outsourcing, especially for services (UNCTAD, 2004). Our...

Nanotechnologies are expected to be the dominant general purpose technology of the next decades. Their market potential is immense and...

Formulating a model which summarises transportation costs, uncertainty and price, we describe how a switch to ICT procurement can...

This paper considers the argument about whether Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries are mainly poor because they are governed worse...