The aim of this project is to examine effects of the "combined" human capital of founders and employees for a company's success. Therefore, interactions between the education, qualifications and professional…
The aim of this study is to update a report on key innovation indicators for the chemical industry for the year 2013. In a concise way, the study offers an overview on the state and recent developments in research…
The acquisition of technological capabilities through a comprehensive system of indicators is a central part of the annual report of the German Expertenkommission Forschung und Innovation (Expert Commission…
This project collects information on the activities of member states and associated countries to meet the objectives of the European Research Area (ERA) through a set of indicators for each of the following five…
This project will use a natural experiment to identify the causal effects of transferring patent rights to the university on the incentives for academic researchers to produce and publicly disseminate new…
The goal of this research project is to estimate the long-run expected returns to R&D and human capital investment by German firms using data from the Mannheim Innovation panel (MIP). The research will build upon…
Economists and policy analysts know very little about the conditions under which cartels are formed in differing legal environments, about their behaviour towards outsiders or deviating insiders and about their…
The purpose of the project is to monitor firm formation dynamics in industries relevant for the transformation to clean energy production and energy savings. In a first step, relevant industries are identified and…
For several years the European Commission has tried to facilitate private damage compensation claims against cartelists. The Commission aims for a better deterrence as well as for an appropriate compensation for…