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

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

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 age,...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The present paper employs spatial econometrics techniques to discriminate empirically between various economically plausible spatial patterns...

The convergence of regional electricity intensities in Italy is studied over the period from 1997 to 2007. We emphasize the importance of the...

This study examines how the extent of entrepreneurship education within university departments influences students’ entrepreneurial intentions...

The paper examines the impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on the survival of business start-ups. FDI has potential for both negative...