Projects of the Research Unit Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics

Abgeschlossene Projekte

  1. Project // 01.02.2019 – 31.01.2020

    2019 Data-Report on Innovation Behaviour of Saxony‘s Economy

    The aim of this research was to collect data on innovation activities of the business enterprise sector in the State of Saxony in the years 2016 to 2018 as well as the planned innovation activities in 2019 and…

  2. Project // 01.02.2019 – 31.01.2020

    Innovation Survey 2019 for Brandenburg

    The aim of this research was to collect data on innovation activities of the business enterprise sector in the State of Brandenburg in the years 2016 to 2018 as well as the planned innovation activities in 2019…

  3. Project // 01.01.2019 – 30.06.2022

    Growth Welfare Innovation and Productivity

    Well before the Great Recession, the strikingly successful socio-economic regime of growth of the three decades after WWII came to an end as the smooth matching among technological innovation, productivity growth,…

  4. Project // 01.01.2019 – 31.12.2020

    Public Procurement and Firm Innovation

    Private investment in innovation is often at sub-optimal levels because of various types of market failure. In response, governments support private innovation initiatives by lowering their cost through, for…

  5. Project // 01.01. – 31.10.2019

    Innovation Indicators for the Chemical Industry 2019

    The aim of this study is to update a report on key innovation indicators for the chemical industry for the year 2019. In a concise way, the study offers an overview on the state and recent developments in research…

  6. Project // 01.01.2019 – 31.12.2021

    Understanding the Market for Technologies

    The goal of this project is to evaluate the functioning of the market for technologies: the processes through which technologies and intellectual property rights are traded or licensed. Prior studies have…

  7. Project // 01.12.2018 – 03.06.2020

    Effects of the National Minimum Wage on Self-Employment

    The aim of this project was to investigate whether the introduction of the federal minimum wage in Germany in 2015 causally effected self-employment. The project was conducted using data on self-employment from…

  8. Project // 01.11.2018 – 31.05.2021

    Indicators for Innovation Systems: Interactions Between the Science and the Business Sector and Absorptive Capacity of Firms

    In this research project we present the commonly employed set of innovation indicators and demonstrate the limitations thereof. Our target is to develop new approaches in order to tackle and remedy these…

  9. Project // 15.10.2018 – 31.12.2019

    Restructuring and Extension of a Sample of the 2018 KfW Business Survey Panel

    The “Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau” (KfW) has been establishing a firm panel on the basis of paper-and-pencil interviews which is representative of medium-sized and large companies since 2002. Companies of all…