This subproject of the interdisciplinary project "Peer Productivity in Web 2.0 Environments" deals with the economic analysis of social links in online networks. It first and foremost considers Wikis, in…
The purpose of the project is to monitor the German cultural and creative economy and to analyse its strengths and weaknesses by several indicators. A yearly changing topic will be anlysed based on a firm-level…
The term “Green IT” summarizes several aspects related to energy and resource efficiency improvements due to the use of information and communication technologies (ICT). In light of increasing energy prices, Green…
The purpose of the project is to analyse whether quality differentiation in telecommunication services is a relevant determinant for firms' supply of new products and services, new business models or new or…
The purpose of the project is to compare the German digital economy with its international competitors and to analyse the potential of digitalisation and the Internet for German firms. The analysis is based on…
The development of digital products is often supported by social networks that emerge among users. These networks facilitate both the flow of product information and the development of product-specific human…
The need to go beyond GDP to measure the well-being of people and societal progress is now fully recognized, also at a political level. The EU FP7 project e-Frame - European Framework for Measuring Progress -…
Based on the keyword „net neutrality“, most recently a controversial discussion emerged in Europe and in particular in Germany on the role of the state and how transmission neutrality in communication networks…
In most European countries, including Germany, tertiary education is mostly publicly financed. It is therefore of central relevance for the State and for society that this investment of public means occurs in an…