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This study was prepared by Stefan Lachenmaier while he was working with the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in March 2007 and was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich (LMU). The subject of this study is an econometric analysis of the effects of innovation on firm performance. The main data source for this analysis is the Ifo Innovation Survey, which has provided yearly, firm-level data on innovation since 1982. Following two introductory chapters on innovation, the data set is introduced and explained in detail. Subsequent chapters analyze the effects of different types of innovation on four measures of firm performance, viz. sales, labor productivity, employment and exports. The econometric approach addresses the problems of unobserved firm heterogeneity as well as the potential endogeneity of innovation with respect to firm performance and its dynamics. Taken together, the results indicate that innovations show positive effects on sales, labor productivity and employment; the effects on exports are less clear.

The Jewish Social Contract begins by asking how a traditional Jew can participate politically and socially and in good faith in a modern democratic society, and ends by proposing a broad, inclusive notion of secularity. David Novak takes issue with the view--held by the late philosopher John Rawls and his followers--that citizens of a liberal state must, in effect, check their religion at the door when discussing politics in a public forum. Novak argues that in a "liberal democratic state, members of faith-based communities--such as tradition-minded Jews and Christians--ought to be able to adhere to the broad political framework wholly in terms of their own religious tradition and convictions, and without setting their religion aside in the public sphere.Novak shows how social contracts emerged, rooted in biblical notions of covenant, and how they developed in the rabbinic, medieval, and "modern periods. He offers suggestions as to how Jews today can best negotiate the modern social contract while calling upon non-Jewish allies to aid them in the process. The Jewish Social Contract will prove an enlightening and innovative contribution to the ongoing debate about the role of religion in liberal democracies.

"This book explores why creativity is so important to the global workplace and workforce. It provides information about the importance of creativity in this era of growing complexity and rapid change, provides research about creativity and recommendations for development and sustainability"--

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. TECHNOLOGY -- 1 More Than Inventions -- 2 The Skills of the Unskilled -- 3 Revolutions in Slow Motion -- 4 Standard Knowledge -- PART II. WAGES -- 5 When Does Technology Raise Wages? -- 6 How the Weavers Got Good Wages -- 7 The Transition Today: Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs -- PART III. TECHNOLOGY POLICY -- 8 Does Technology Require More College Diplomas? -- 9 Whose Knowledge Economy? -- 10 Procuring New Knowledge -- 11 The Forgotten History of Knowledge Sharing -- 12 Patents and Early-Stage Knowledge -- 13 The Political Economy of Technical Knowledge -- 14 The Skills of the Many and the Prosperity of Nations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

From user-generated images of streets to professional architectural renderings, and from digital maps and drone footages to representations of invisible digital ecologies, this collection of essays analyses the emergent practices of visualizing the street. Today, advancements in digital technologies of the image have given rise to the production and dissemination of imagery of streets and urban realities in multiple forms. The ubiquitous presence of digital visualizations has in turn created new forms of urban practice and modes of spatial encounter. Everyone who carries a smartphone not only plays an increasingly significant role in the production, editing and circulation of images of the street, but also relies on those images to experience urban worlds and to navigate in them. Such entangled forms of image-making and image-sharing have constructed new imaginaries of the street and have had a significant impact on the ways in which contemporary and future streets are understood, imagined, documented, navigated, mediated and visualized. Visualizing the Street investigates the social and cultural significance of these new developments at the intersection of visual culture and urban space. The interdisciplinary essays provide new concepts, theories and research methods that combine close analyses of street images and imaginaries with the study of the practices of their production and circulation. The book covers a wide range of visible and invisible geographies -- From Hong Kong's streets to Rio's favelas, from Sydney's suburbs to London's street markets, and from Damascus' war-torn streets to Istanbul's sidewalks -- and engages with multiple ways in which visualizations of the street function to document street protests and urban change, to build imaginaries of urban communities and alternate worlds, and to help navigate streetscapes.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Locating Cities on Global Circuits -- PART I THE URBAN ARCHITECTURE OF GLOBAL NETWORKS -- 1. The Architecture of Global Networking Technologies -- 2. Communication Grids: Cities and Infrastructure -- 3. Firms and Their Global Service Networks -- 4. Hierarchies of Dominance among World Cities: A Network Approach -- PART II CROSS-BORDER REGIONS -- 5. Mexico: The Making of a Global City -- 6. The Hormuz Corridor: Building a Cross-Border Region between Iran and the United Arab Emirates

​Das hier entwickelte Konzept einer lebenswerten Smart City betont die Relevanz der Funktionsfähigkeit und integrierten Resilienz zukunftsfähiger Städte. Die fortschreitende Digitalisierung wird kritisch beleuchtet und der revolutionierte Energiesektor als Fundament des urbanen Lebens erkannt. Das Konzept macht den Menschen und die natürliche Umwelt zum Ausgangspunkt der Betrachtung, was in einem erweiterten Nachhaltigkeitsbegriff und einer ergänzten Produkttheorie resultiert. Die Smart City 2.0 ist ein Chancenraum für ihre Bewohner und ein attraktiver Zukunftsmarkt für innovative Produkte und