A silent revolution: The internationalisation of large Spanish family firms

Does internationalisation of technology determine technological diversification in large firms?

The purpose of the paper is to examine the relationship between technological diversification and internationalisation of technology for large multinational firms, operating at the world technological frontier. More precisely we address the question as to whether internationalisation determines diversification. The analysis is based on a rich database of the European patenting activity of 345 l...

Does internationalisation of technology determine technological diversification in large firms? The basic importance of technology internationalisation strategy

The purpose of the paper is to examine the relationship between technological diversification and internationalisation of technology for large multinational firms, operating at the world technological frontier. More precisely we address the question as to whether internationalisation determines diversification. The analysis is based on a rich database of the European patenting activity of 345 l...

A Silent Revolution in Mathematics

F ifty years ago there has been still a clear cut separation between pure and applied mathematics: pure mathematics had its home in the Olympus of academic sciences, whereas applied mathematics was left to the technical universities for teaching and research. Some time ago a colleague of mine from the department of mechanics of the Technical University of Vienna said partly amused partly offend...

Herbert Simon’s Silent Revolution

Werner Callebaut Faculty of Sciences, Hasselt University, Belgium & Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research Altenberg, Austria [email protected] Abstract Simon’s bounded rationality (BR), the first scientific research program (as opposed to a purely philosophical one) to seriously take the cognitive limitations of decision makers into account, has often been confla...

The organizational implications of the internationalisation of law firms