The project took a demand-side approach to investigating the informal private equity capital market for technology-intensive start-ups in Germany. Particular attention was paid to the role of so-called Business…
The aim of the project is to measure and analyse the innovation behaviour of companies in the metropolitan region of Bremen-Oldenburg in the reference period from 2004 to 2006 with a future outlook on 2008. It is…
The Research Network on Innovation and Competition Policy (RNIC) brings together eight research institutes and universities to establish an international and interdisciplinary research network on European …
In 2005, the European Commission carried out an investigation into the competitiveness of 27 sectors from the manufacturing industry on the basis of the following five criteria: technological progress, …
The proposed OECD project will seek to identify the necessary steps to realize the potential gains of what is called the bioeconomy. The term bioeconomy is interpreted in different ways by different actors. The …
This project continued work started under the project "High-Tech Start-Ups in Germany", which was conducted by the ZEW in 2006 at the request of the economics magazine “impulse“ (published by Gruner + Jahr…
The aim of this study is to collate and evaluate regulatory practices for network-based industries in Germany and Europe, in order to identify basic regulatory structures and those which recur in a number of…
The support program AplusB is a promotional act of the Austrian Research Support Corporation - and of the Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT)- which support the setup and business of…
The study aims at contributing to the understanding of the microstructure of the German electricity market by identifying price determinants, possible deficits of efficiency due to market power and their likely…