Industrial production in high-wage countries like Germany is still at risk. Yet, there are many counter-examples in which producing companies dominate their competitors by not only compensating for their specific disadvantages in terms of factor costs (e.g. wages, energy, duties and taxes) but rather by minimising waste using synchronising...

The idea for this book started when we organized a topical workshop entitled “Innovation Networks – New Approaches in Modeling and Analyzing” (held in Augsburg, Germany in October 2005), under the auspices of Exystence, a network of excellence funded in the European Union’s Fifth Framework Program. Unlike other...