Is there a chance that public or private research and development institutions can improve the efficiency of the R&D process? This book gives a positive answer by designing an integrated concept of the science technology cycle and the innovation system of each technology. The position of a new technology in the sciencetechnology cycle is identified by several indicators from patent analysis, citations and market information data. The innovation system supports the search for a comprehensive understanding of all important stakeholders of an innovation, possible obstacles and related policies. The application of the methodology leads to convincing results: the hype of the PEM fuel cell activities could have been identified at the end of the 1990s as the phase of euphoria, but not as a situation close to market entry in the car or boiler markets.

Is there a chance that public or private research and development institutions can improve the efficiency of the R&D process? This book gives a positive answer by designing an integrated concept of the science technology cycle and the innovation system of each technology. The position of a new technology in the sciencetechnology cycle is identified by several indicators from patent analysis, citations and market information data. The innovation system supports the search for a comprehensive understanding of all important stakeholders of an innovation, possible obstacles and related policies. The application of the methodology leads to convincing results: the hype of the PEM fuel cell activities could have been identified at the end of the 1990s as the phase of euphoria, but not as a situation close to market entry in the car or boiler markets.

Im Mittelpunkt dieser Untersuchung zum grenzuberschreitenden Wissensmanagement grosser multinationaler Unternehmen steht die Frage nach der Bedeutung und Motivation von Forschungsaktivitaten im Ausland. Ebenso wurde das Profil der Auslandsforschung im Hinblick auf Technikfelder untersucht. Die Autoren gingen diesen Fragen im Rahmen einer grossen Sammlung von Fallstudien nach, fur die 88 deutsche Unternehmen aus den Sektoren Chemie, Elektrotechnik, Maschinenbau und Kraftfahrzeugbau detailliert analysiert wurden. Um die Einschatzung des Forschungsstandortes Deutschland abzurunden, wurden parallel dazu auch die Aktivitaten von 47 auslandischen Unternehmen in Deutschland untersucht."

Der Band ist das Ergebnis der interdisziplinaren Zusammenarbeit von Innovationsforschern und Rechtswissenschaftlern. Er bietet eine ausfuhrliche Analyse der okonomischen Implikationen der Patentierung von software-bezogenen Erfindungen."