Innovation is considered critical to sustained development both in Europe and in China. At the Lisbon summit in March 2000, the European Union decided to become by the year 2010 the most competitive…
An economic policy wanting to maintain high incentives for innovation activity and creativity of firms by a steady competition must be interested in a dynamic development of business formation activities and,…
The introduction of the new Insolvency Act in 1999 was accompanied by great expectations. The greatest hope of the reformers was that, under the new Act, people regard insolvency as an opportunity for…
Retail price recommendations (RPR) refer to non-binding suggestions from a manufacturer on how a retailer should price the manufacturer’s goods to final consumers. This is a widely used practice that is typically…
Since its onset, the global financial crisis has had a significant impact on the M&A market. The conditions under which M&A transactions are implemented have changed considerably, from both an institutional and…
Within the scope of the project the recipients of the Federal Direct R&D Project Funding (DPF) are classified with regard to their belonging to the group of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) and the DPF is…
In the context of this EU Twinning Project, ZEW experts support the Latvian Competition Council in the extension of the use of theoretical and empirical methods of competition policy analysis. In particular, ZEW…
The monopoly rights represented by patents have classically been viewed as a short-run sacrifice of consumer surplus for the sake of long-run increases in economic growth through the promotion of investment in…
Business founding activity in high-tech sectors: High-tech foundations in Germany are observed with respect to their numbers, their share of the total number of foundations and…