1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 98-45 // 1998

    Mapping Innovative Clusters in National Innovation Systems

    In the following we will discuss the "mapping of innovative clusters in national innovation systems". For this we have used a data set of almost 3.000 firms that participated in the first and fifth survey of the…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 98-37 // 1998

    Public Research and Industrial Innovations in Germany

    The paper deals with the effects of publicly funded research at universities, poly-technics and federal and state financed research labs on industrial innovations in Ger-many. In order to understand the current…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 98-34 // 1998

    The Internationalisation of British and German Start-Up Companies in High-Technology Industries

    Established theories in international business come to different conclusions when specifically applied to the analysis of the international activities of start-up companies in high-technology industries. Using a…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 98-32 // 1998

    R&D cooperation and R&D intensity: Theory and Micro-Econometric Evidence for Germany

    This paper develops a three stage oligopoly game for R&D cooperation, R&D expenditure and product market competition. In the first stage, firms decide whether or not to conduct R&D in cooperation with other…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 98-31 // 1998

    The Goals of Sustainable Development and the Reform of the EU Banana Trade Regime. A Discussion of Different Trade Instruments

    Ideally a new reform of the EU trade regime for bananas (COMB) should be equipped in a way that it makes a long-term contribution to the realisation of sustainable goals, or at least does not prevent them. From…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 98-28 // 1998

    Pricing to Market of German Exporters: Evidence from Panel Data

    This paper investigates price discrimination of German exporters across different foreign markets. We examine the degree of pass-through of exchange rate fluctuations in the pricing of 70 export items. The model…