As the innovation process of pharmaceuticals is a long, risky and very costly business, economists typically emphasise lack of profit incentives and small market size as the most important obstacles to…
The present analysis investigates skill requirements in the workplace, measured directly by the task-composition of occupations. It shows that the task composition of occupations has shifted toward analytical…
The increased use of information and communication technologies (ICT) leads to new ways of doing business internationally. Nowadays, firm-specific intangible assets as well as services often constitute the most…
Using panel data for German and Dutch firms from the services sector, this paper analyses the importance of ICT capital deepening and innovation for productivity. We employ a model that takes into account that…
In Deutschland stellen Personen, die ihre Berufsausbildung im Rahmen des dualen Systems oder durch den Besuch einer Berufsfachschule erworben haben, das Rückgrat der Beschäftigung dar. Trotz seiner Bedeutung…
This paper analyzes the relationship between investment in information and communication technologies (ICT), non--ICT--investment, labor productivity and workplace reorganization. Firms are assumed to…
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) play a key role for the innovation and growth potentials of industrialised economies. This study on the German innovation system shows, however, that the…