Zugl.: Graz, Univ., Diss., 2005

(no abstract available) / Series: SRE - Discussion Papers

Zugl.: Wien, Univ., Diss., 2007

Within the field of creative industries the topic of this research is dedicated to an analysis of the "habitus" of the producers of electronic music, based on the "theory of habitus" of the french sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. According to Bourdieu, a "social field" is affected by specific attributes of the people involved in the field. "Habitus" can be defined as a system of dispositions. The "social field" in our research is restricted to producers of electronic music. Geographically the field is limited to the area of Vienna. Based on Bourdieus theory we discuss the following research question: What specific characteristics can be found in the "habitus" of producers of electronic music in Vienna? The research is based on nariative interviews. As a result of the qualitative analysis we discovered a range of common as well as diverging dispositions among the music producers. (author's abstract) / Series: Schriftenreihe / Forschungsbereich Wirtschaft und Kultur

The goal of this paper is to examine innovation activities in the Vienna software industry and to get a better understanding of the nature and geography of knowledge linkages in this sector. In the literature there seems to be a growing consensus that innovation rests on both informal local knowledge linkages and formal global networks, i.e. a combination of "local buzz" and "global pipelines". Recent studies on the software sector, however, show that the importance of different types of knowledge sources, the spatial dimension of knowledge transfer and the relevance of different channels of knowledge exchange in the software industry remain poorly understood. Drawing on a firm survey and qualitative face-to-face interviews with companies we will show that in the Vienna software industry the transfer and exchange of knowledge is highly localised and strongly informal in nature, pointing to a high significance of "local buzz" and a lack of "global pipelines". This specific pattern raises the question whether the Vienna software sector is exposed to a danger of lock in. (author´s abstract) / Series: SRE - Discussion Papers

Zugl.: Graz, Univ., Diss., 2005

Zugl.: Wien, Univ., Diss., 2007

Zugl.: Wien, Veterinärmed. Univ., Diss., 2007 / Hergestellt on demand

Zielsetzung des im Rahmen vom WWTF geförderten Projektes "Creative Industries in Vienna" durchgeführten Forschungsvorhabens ist es, die Entwicklung der Kunst als soziales System und Medium der Kommunikation in Europa und in Wien exemplarisch herauszuarbeiten. Damit wird der vorherrschende CI-Diskurs um eine systemtheoretische Perspektive erweitert. Im hier präsentierten Vorbericht werden die dafür aufbereiteten theoretischen Ausgangspositionen, Fragestellungen und Zielsetzungen dargestellt. Zu diesem Zweck wird zunächst in der Einleitung das Gesamtprojekt im internationalen CI-Diskurs verortet und der Mainstream der Diskussion aus systemtheoretischer Perspektive in Frage gestellt. Die Entscheidung, einen systemtheoretischen Zugang zu wählen, wird bereits in der Einleitung begründet und durch die Gliederung der Gesamtarbeit vorgestellt. Im Kapitel 1. Theorie wird die angewandte Theorie der sozialen Systeme im Kontext des sogenannten radikalen Konstruktivismus verortet und die übergeordnete Fragestellung der Zusammenhänge von Kunst Politik und Wirtschaft aus systemtheoretischer Perspektive aufbereitet. Im abschließenden Kapitel zur sogenannten Habermas-Luhmann-Kontroverse wird schließlich die Entscheidung für die Systemtheorie noch einmal veranschaulicht und reflektiert. / Series: Creative Industries in Vienna: Development, Dynamics and Potentials

With conventional CMOS technologies approaching their scaling limits, researchers are actively investigating alternative technologies for ever increasing computing and mobile demand. A number of different technologies are currently being studied by different research groups. In the last decade, one-dimensional (1D) carbon nanotubes (CNT), graphene, which is a two-dimensional (2D) natural occurring carbon rolled in tubular form, and zero-dimensional (0D) fullerenes have been the subject of intensive research. In 2008, HP Labs announced a ground-breaking fabrication of memristors, the fourth fundamental element postulated by Chua at the University of California, Berkeley in 1971. In the last few years, the memristor has gained a lot of attention from the research community. In-depth studies of the memristor and its analog behavior have convinced the community that it has the potential in future nano-architectures for optimization of high-density memory and neuromorphic computing architectures. The objective of this thesis is to explore memristors for analog and mixed-signal system design using Simscape. This thesis presents a memristor model in the Simscape language. Simscape has been used as it has the potential for modeling large systems. A memristor based programmable oscillator is also presented with simulation results and characterization. In addition, simulation results of different memristor models are presented which are crucial for the detailed understanding of the memristor along with its properties.