The evolutionary analysis of economic policy

#This study is a pioneering effort to attempt to integrate evolutionary and economic theory in order to have a better understanding of the way in which political, economic and social systems evolve over time. The result is an exciting series of essays exploring the various ...

La industria de defensa

el desfase tecnológico entre la Unión Europea y Estados Unidos de América

Cuando estas líneas lleguen al lector, los resultados de las cumbres europeas de diciembre del 2013 y junio del 2015 estarán presentes sólo en las mentes de unos pocos expertos del sector y del puñado de personas que, por razones profesionales, estén obligados al seguimiento ...

Globalization and technology

interdependence, innovation systems and industrial policy

Technology and globalization are interdependent processes. Globalization has a fundamental influence on the creation and diffusion of technology, which, in turn, affects the interdependence of firms and locations. This volume examines the international aspect of this interdependence at two levels. First, between locations, by examining ...

Managed care and monopoly power

the antitrust challenge

As millions of Americans are aware, health care costs continue to increase rapidly. Much of this increase is due to the development of new life-sustaining drugs and procedures, but part of it is due to the increased monopoly power of physicians, insurance companies, and hospitals ...

Economic behavior and legal institutions

an introductory survey

Markets would not function unless supported by a legal framework. That framework is no self-contained, exogenous structure; it has evolved in response to the demands of economic activity. There are laws made to influence or modify market behaviour, in an attempt to produce the desired ...

La innovación tecnológica en las organizaciones

El libro se divide en cuatro partes: 1º) Fundamentos de la innovación 2º) Estrategia e innovación Se analiza la innovación tecnológica en las pequeñas y medianas empresas y se presenta el concepto de alianza empresarial y su influencia en la estrategia de innovación de las ...

The SMS blackwell handbook of organizational capabilities

emergence, developement, and change

How do the resources and capabilities of organizations emerge and develop over time? This handbook brings together scholars of strategic management, economics, history, organizational theory, international business, and technology management in order to address this question. Many of the contributions present new theoretical or empirical ...

Innovation and knowledge creation in an open economy

canadian industry and international implications

This study of innovation - its intensity, the sources used for knowledge creation, and its impacts - is based on a comprehensive survey of innovation of Canadian manufacturing firms. Attention is paid to the different actors in the system, who both compete with and complement one another ...

Spectrum auctions and competition in telecommunications

In 2000 and 2001, several European countries carried out auctions for third generation technologies or universal mobile telephone services (UMTS) communication licenses. These "spectrum auctions" inaugurated yet another era in an industry that has already been transformed by a combination of staggering technological innovation and ...

Rethinking rights and regulations

institutional responses to new communications technologies

The contributors to this volume examine issues raised by the intersection of new communications technologies and public policy in this post-boom, post- bust era. Originally presented at the 30th Research Conference on Communication, Information, and Internet Policy (TPRC 2002)-- traditionally a showcase for the best ...

Software ecosystem

understanding an indispensable technology and industry

Software has gone from obscurity to indispensability in less than fifty years. Although other industries have followed a similar trajectory, software and its supporting industry are different. In this book the authors explain, from a variety of perspectives, how software and the software industry are ...

Fondos, flujos y tiempos

un análisis microeconómico de los procesos productivos

El libro presenta una visión alternativa de la producción que permite abordar los problemas microeconómicos, tanto los teóricos como los de gestión, desde unas nuevas bases más sólidas y empíricamente asentadas INDICE I. Introducción II. La disección de los procesos productivos II.1. Aspectos básicos ...

Médias et sociétés

édition, presse, cinéma, radio, télévision, Internet, CD, DVD

Nés au milieu du XIXe siècle, les journaux quotidiens inaugurent une ère nouvelle pour l'information et la démocratie : pour la première fois dans l'histoire, des nouvelles d'actualité, considérables ou dérisoires, ordinaires ou spectaculaires, sont propagées selon une technique industrielle. Après la Seconde ...

Antitrust between EC Law and national Law = Antitrust fra Diritto nazionale e Diritto comunitario

V Conference = V Convegno

The european commsission's jurisdiction to scrutinise mergers

Jurisdiction to scrutinise mergers. Second edition

Since the EC Merger Regulation was adopted in 1989, merger control has become established as an important part of EC competition law so that today all major businesses and law firms are aware of the Commission s extensive powers in this field. Right from the ...

Competition policy in Europe

The modern industrial states desperately need more competition in order to generate growth and employment. Although the European Union pushed the member states to open several sectors to competition, there is much left to be done. At the same time powerful interest groups try to ...

Antitrust developments in Europe 2002

Antitrust laws and proceedings in Europe, both at the Community and national levels, shape the European and international business landscape profoundly. It is therefore essential that business leaders and legal practitioners remain informed of the most important antitrust law developments and their effect on the ...

Telecomunicaciones, infraestructuras y libre competencia

En este libro sobre Telecomunicaciones, infraestructuras y libre competencia dispone el lector un estudio sobre el nuevo reto que plantea al jurista, el impacto de las telecomunicaciones y las nuevas tecnologías de la comunicación en las sociedades capitalistas avanzadas. Aquí encontrará también una variada y ...

Acceptability of transport pricing strategies

Several studies and research projects all over the world have considered transport pricing strategies as promising attempts to solve the urgent traffic problems in urban areas. However, empirical results have shown that public and political acceptability of such strategies is low. Until now, acceptance research ...

Computers and the environment

understanding and managing their impacts

Personal computers have made life convenient in many ways, but what about their impacts on the environment due to production, use and disposal? Manufacturing computers requires prodigious quantities of fossil fuels, toxic chemicals and water. Rapid improvements in performance mean we often buy a new ...