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The proposed study intends to document and analyse the importance of network governance for effiency of economic clusters related to the economic and institutional development of the property investment sector in Great Britain. The trend of the branch is very strongly shaped by path dependencies that are genuinely different from those in other European counterparts. British enterprises characteristically have a relatively high market knowledge of their respective part of the sector. Since this knowledge is bound and purposefully accumulated by certain mobile persons, a central characteristics of the British property development industry are expert networks.

This cooperation project includes seven institutes from all sections of the Leibniz Association (WGL). The aim of the project is to find out how to optimise the transfer of knowledge and technology between the scientific endeavours within the Leibniz Association and the non-scientific enterprises outside of it. Compared to other large non-university research organisations in Germany, the institutes of the Leibniz Association are characterised both by their juristic and organisational independence, and also by a wide variety of practices and academic departments. Accordingly, we emphasise how various departments relate to different knowledge-technology transfer activities.

Global migration has revived questions of collective identity. As George Orwell once said: “It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are”. Naturalization policies (re)construct collective identities by telling a narrative about who “we” are and deriving from it the qualities that “we” value in “others”.

In recent years, liberal democracies have implemented a variety of “cultural-defense means”, directing immigrants to embrace the narratives of the host society. This issue is a bone of contention especially in the European Union, where leading officials in some Member States declare a right to impose immigration restrictions to supposedly defend their collective identity.

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The project focuses on professional careers of women and men who have achieved (or are about to achieve) a top position in the scientific or the economic fields. We aim to better understand how people are recruited for the most distinguished positions in both science and the economy, while taking into account the specific performance requirements of each professional field.