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    The Diffusion of New Production Concepts in Germany

    In the past, German industry was synonymous with high-performance products, high quality, success in international markets, and consistent growth. Today, the matter is more complex: while some German companies...

    Steffen Kinkel, Jürgen Wengel in Innovation in Production (1999)

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    Interaction of Process and Product Innovation

    The tap** of new markets with growth possibilities is often said to require the development and commercialization of innovative products (Utterback 1994, Freeman and Soete 1997). A strategy of innovation and...

    Gunter Lay in Innovation in Production (1999)

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    Worker Participation and Process Innovations

    The involvement of workers in corporate supervision and management — through procedures for “codetermination” — is a well known, and much discussed, feature of the German industrial system. The German model of...

    Jürgen Wengel, Werner Wallmeier in Innovation in Production (1999)

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    Innovation versus Emigration - New Production Concepts and Transborder Relocation

    An intense debate is now underway about the advantages — and especially the disadvantages — of Germany as a location for industry. In particular, criticism is leveled at Germany’s unfavorable framework conditi...

    Steffen Kinkel in Innovation in Production (1999)

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    Adoption of New Production Concepts in East Germany

    After the economic and monetary union between East and West Germany in 1990, industrial firms in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) were abruptly exposed to the production and trade requirements of a ...

    Gunter Lay in Innovation in Production (1999)

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    Implications for Modernization Strategies and Studies

    In recent years, the process of innovation has moved very much to the forefront of concern in understanding and promoting industrial competitiveness, business performance, and economic growth and development. ...

    Gunter Lay, Carsten Dreher, Philip Shapira in Innovation in Production (1999)

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    Introduction: Perspectives on German Industry and Its Competitiveness

    Many Germans look back to the 1970s as a highpoint in their nation’s industrial development. The hallmark “Made in Germany” then signaled not only well-made products, but also a highly efficient industrial sys...

    Gunter Lay, Philip Shapira in Innovation in Production (1999)

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    Performance Impacts of New Production Concepts

    In the mid-1990s, the economic situation of the German investment goods sector was problematic. Macroeconomic indicators showed that incoming order levels were weak, while major concerns had arisen over the se...

    Gunter Lay, Carsten Dreher, Steffen Kinkel in Innovation in Production (1999)

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    New Production Concepts and Employment

    With more than 4 million people out of work and an unemployment rate of over 11 percent in Germany, the creation of new jobs is now a major concern. One approach that is often suggested to lower unemployment i...

    Gunter Lay in Innovation in Production (1999)

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    Flexibility at Work

    Germany has an extensive array of rules and norms that regulate employee working hours and business operating times, including when during the week and weekends that manufacturers are permitted to operate. The...

    Gunter Lay, Claudia Mies in Innovation in Production (1999)

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    Environmental Practices in Germany’s Investment Goods Sector

    Environmental conservation has an important position in public discussion in Germany and has great significant in German politics, legislation, and regulation. Environmental laws and state funding incentives i...

    Jürgen Fleig in Innovation in Production (1999)

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    New Production Concepts and Service Orientation: The Case of Teleservice

    Goods made in Germany can not compete primarily through low prices. German production input costs, particularly the expense of labor, are too high for that. Over the last few decades, German manufacturers have...

    Carsten Dreher, Gunter Lay, Thomas Michler in Innovation in Production (1999)

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    Promotion of CIM in the New Länder

    Following the reunification of Germany in 1990, companies in the new Länder of the former East Germany suddenly had to confront the cold waters of the market economy and the full convertibility of the old East...

    Jürgen Wengel in Innovation in Production (1999)

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    Neue Gründerzeit in Deutschland — Unternehmertum in der Telekommunikation

    Ich bin Ihrer Einladung sehr gern gefolgt. Mein Terminplan ist gerade für solche Begegnungen durchaus offen genug, denn sie interessieren mich nicht nur in meiner Eigenschaft als Ministerpräsident eines Bundes...

    Prof. Dr. Biedenkopf in eCompanies — gründen, wachsen, ernten (2001)

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    Unternehmensgründungen der Telekommunikation in Deutschland Eintrittsstrategien und Barrieren

    Seit der vollständigen Liberalisierung des Deutschen Telekommunikationsmarktes ab dem 1.1.1998 wurden an über 200 Firmen Lizenzen für Sprachtelefondienste und Übertragungswege erteilt. Etwa ein Drittel dieser ...

    Prof. Dr. Michael Dowling in eCompanies — gründen, wachsen, ernten (2001)

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    Orckit — a Technology Entrepreneur Sucessfully Competing with Multinational Telecom Vendors

    Orckit was founded in 1990. We are a company devoted exclusively to DSL, or Digital Subscriber Line, a technology which is now quite familiar but which only three years ago was relatively unheard of amongst th...

    Dan Arazi in eCompanies — gründen, wachsen, ernten (2001)

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    Die technische Entwicklung und der Fortschritt der Medien sind eine Voraussetzung für den Erfolg eines Medienunternehmens: Letztendlich entscheidend sind jedoch die Inhalte

    Guten Tag, meine sehr verehrten Damen und Herren, Herr Professor, vielen Dank für die Vorstellung. Es ist mir eine Ehre, hier im Münchner Kreis sein zu dürfen. Und es ist mir eine Freude, Ihnen unsere Geschich...

    Thomas Haffa in eCompanies — gründen, wachsen, ernten (2001)

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    Chancen und Risiken des Venture Capital als langfristiges Finanzierungsinstrument zur Unternehmensentwicklung in der Zeit des schnellen technologischen Wandels

    Meine Damen und Herren, wie es so schön heißt: Den letzten beißen die Hunde. Mir bleiben jetzt noch 7 Minuten. Wenn ich die Präsentation durchlaufen lasse, wird sie zum Film. Vielleicht kurz zu bmp. Ich möchte...

    Oliver Borrmann in eCompanies — gründen, wachsen, ernten (2001)

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    Schlußworte

    Meine Damen und Herren, ich möchte nur noch wenige Worte sagen. Spätestens heute haben wir gründlich gelernt, dass Information, Kommunikation und Medien mehr denn je eine unternehmerische Dimension besitzen, d...

    Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Arnold Picot in eCompanies — gründen, wachsen, ernten (2001)

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    Begrüßung und Einführung

    Meine sehr verehrten Damen und Herren, ich freue mich, Sie zu dieser Fachkonferenz des Münchner Kreises mit dem sehr aktuellen und sehr weitreichendem Thema begrüßen zu können und dass Sie so zahlreich erschie...

    Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Arnold Picot in eCompanies — gründen, wachsen, ernten (2001)

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