infonet-economy

Zahl und Vielfalt der ökonomischen Probleme des Hochschulsektors haben in den letzten Jahren - nicht zuletzt aufgrund knapper werdender Ressourcen - deutlich zugenommen. Dies war Anlass für den Bildungsökonomischen Ausschuss, sich auf seiner 27. Jahrestagung, die im März 2002 an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität in Jena stattfand, mit hochschulökonomischen Fragen zu beschäftigen....

Despite the importance of gathering technological knowledge from external sources, many firms are not well-placed to collect information from beyond their own boundaries. Government policies designed to improve access to technological knowledge often encourage firms to develop strong ties with competitors, suppliers or customers. But although strong ties are valuable, especially when...

The aim of this paper is to develop a model predicting the collected amount of waste paper at the regional level of municipalities. Learning about the factors that influence the amount of collected paper is a prerequisite for the evaluation and reorganization of collection systems. We hypothesize that the amount of collected paper depends on both the waste potential and the factors...