Digital Innovation as a Regional Economy Development Factor

WP 11: Bridging Digital Ecosystems Research to Regional Development and Innovation in the Knowledge Economy

Innovation as a Factor (determinant) for Sustainable Development of Smes in the Knowledge-based Economy

1 Innovationen in Unternehmen ermöglichen die Entwicklung des Marktes und damit die Befriedigung der Bedürfnisse der Kunden. Jedoch ist festzustellen, dass der Innovationtransfer und die Innovationsimplementierung in kleinen und mittelständischen Unternehmen extrem abhängig vom Stand der Forschung und der Entwicklung des Finanzkapitals in großen Unternehmen sind. „Innovation ist keine Garantie ...

Business Model Innovation in the Digital Economy

A viable business model in the digital economy must follow the fundamental economic principles and be able to capitalize on the disruptive characteristics of the Internet commerce. This chapter presents an analytical method to assist business executive and entrepreneurs in evaluating and building a viable business model in the digital economy. This method is based on the concept of disruptive i...

A Normative Dynamic Model of Regional Economy

    Dynamic model,   regional economy,   innovation.   This paper presents a normative balance mathematical model of regional economy that contains a lot of unspecified parameters which are not defined directly by the data of economic statistics. A method for estimation of the model parameters by application of parallel computations on multi-processors systems is presented. It is determined the...

Clusters, Innovation and Regional Development

This paper provides a critical examination of the widely disseminated view that innovation in all or most activities is favoured by certain common characteristics in the local ‘milieu’, involving a cluster of many small firms benefiting from flexible inter-firm alliances, supported by mutual information exchanges of both an informal and formal nature. The general applicability of this model, an...