Innovation: Technical, economic and institutional aspects

by Prinz, Aloys; Steenge, Albert E.; Schmidt, Jorg

• ISBN13: 9783825895969
• ISBN10: 3825895963
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-06
• Publisher: Lit Verlag

Summary

The central topics here are: institutional reforms to regulate markets; innovations in the system of national accounts and cartelization of markets; the use of the internet for public choice and administrative accountability; and an innovative voucher scheme for social policy. Aloys Prinz is professor of economics at the University of Mnster (Germany). Albert E. Steenge is professor at the School of Business, Public Administration and Technology at the University of Twente (the Netherlands). Jrg Schmidt is researcher at the University of Mnster.

Table of Contents

New economic impulses in old industrial regions : the case of the University of Twente	p. 1
Shifts in gas market governance : path-dependent institutional innovation in the Netherlands	p. 25
Public sector accountability towards citizens : an inquiry into the use of Internet to distribute annual reports	p. 65
Public choice in the Internet economy	p. 105
Innovation in the system of national accounts : tourism satellite accounts	p. 127
On environmental policy and technological change : the role of policy and innovation cycles	p. 171
Innovation deficits as collusive markers	p. 201
Innovation in social policy : a voucher scheme for lifelong spending on social care and security	p. 227
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