This projects aims to develop a new concept of selecting the first market entry for new products and processes. The concept suggests that for many innovations there are leading markets that initiate the…
In the past decade the lubricants market has undergone profound changes. Technical, ecological, and economic requirements towards lubricants have increased. In traditional markets - e.g. the Federal Republic of…
In the international diffusion of innovations one can observe that a particular technological design such as the facsimile machine, the personal computer or the mobile cellular telephone is often adopted by one…
The project aims at analysing the state and current development of industry-science relations (ISR) in Germany. The analyses focus on fourissues: (a) characterising the level of ISR in Germany with respect to…
Global competition gradually affects small companies and service providers and no longer only large corporations. The changes in production, organisation and decision structures pose particular challenges to the…