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For years, Heidelberg University and the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim have worked closely together in the realm of economic research. Now these two institutions have signed an…

Driven by the relatively strong economic climate in 2007, German businesses increased their investments in innovation. In 2007, the German economy added more than six percent to its innovation expenditures.…

Worldwide M&A activities have stabilised at the end of 2008 despite the rough economic climate and the problems from the financial market crisis. The ZEW-ZEPHYR M&A-Index rose by 14 points to 127 points in…

The financial market experts surveyed monthly by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, supported by the Erste Group Bank AG, Vienna, are considerably more optimistic about the economic…

The Financial Market Test Switzerland, carried out by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in cooperation with Credit Suisse, revealed in January that the economic outlook improved somewhat on a…

Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is a common practice used by a total of 42 percent of companies in Baden-Württemberg working in the IT and media sectors or IT user industries. This means, they partly or…

The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany increased in January 2009 once again. The indicator rose by 14.2 points and now stands at minus 31.0 points after minus 45.2 points in the previous month.…

One-third of German-based Service Providers of the Information Society – an economic sector that includes ICT service providers as well as knowledge-intensive service providers – export their services abroad. …

In the fourth quarter 2008 the economic situation for businesses in the sector service providers of the information society slightly recovered. The ZEW-IDI, a sentiment indicator for this sector, rises by 1.8…