General Framework and Concepts

This chapter delivers a general reference frame for innovation and management processes. The first four sections deal with external challenges. A new theoretical framework is developed for international economics and corporate growth, separating long term structural growth from short term fluctuations. It introduces a small set of fundamental constants, formulates conservation laws for economic and corporate development, and derives basic growth processes for start up, catch up, and pioneer countries and companies. Save miracles and disasters, they allow to predict the next generation’s market volumes for investment and consumer goods. The nature and cause of employment problems, the transition from the industrial to the service society, and the closing gap between Asia-Oceania and Europe-North America are explained quantitatively. A general strategy concept concludes this part.