Innovation processes and related spillovers are of eminent importance in a modern economy. How do they relate to spatial structures and environmental factors? The papers analyse innovation processes and spillovers in the economy from various angles, focussing mainly on regional and environmental aspects. Among others they touch issues on university spillovers, urban tourism, highway investments, industry clusters, and econometrics. An ...

Globalisierung, schnellerer Wandel, steigender Wettbewerbsdruck. Unternehmen müssen zu Sicherung des langfristigen Erfolges innovativer sein denn je. Doch Innovationen hervorzubringen ist schwierig. Die Merkmale, die sie auszeichnen "gefährden" die Innovationen gleichzeitig auch. Es entstehen Probleme im Innovationsprozess, präziser ausgedrückt: Es entstehen Probleme bei der Innovationsbereitschaft und der ...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th IFIP International Conference on Information Technology for Balanced Automation Systems.
The IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and communication. The scope of the series includes: foundations of computer science; software theory and practice; education; computer applications in technology; communication systems; systems modeling and ...