Publications of the Research Unit Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics

  1. Refereed Journal // 2020

    Exploring the Adoption of the International Information Security Management System Standard ISO/IEC 27001: A Web Mining-Based Analysis

    In the light of digitalization and recent EU policy initiatives, information is an important asset that organizations of all sizes and from all sectors should secure. However, in order to provide common…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-003 // 2020

    The Digital Layer: How Innovative Firms Relate on the Web

    In this paper, we introduce the concept of a Digital Layer to empirically investigate inter-firm relations at any geographical scale of analysis. The Digital Layer is created from large-scale, structured web…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2020

    Low-Powered vs High-Powered Incentives: Evidence From German Electricity Networks

    We propose a difference-in-differences approach to estimating the impact of incentives on cost reduction in the context of German electricity networks. When subject to a lower-powered regulation mechanism,…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2020

    Start-up subsidies: Does the policy instrument matter?

    New knowledge-intensive firms contribute to innovation, competition, and employment growth, but externalities like knowledge spillovers can prevent entrepreneurs from appropriating the full returns from their…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2020

    Circular Economy Innovations, Growth and Employment at the Firm Level: Empirical Evidence from Germany

    Circular economy (CE) describes a concept that aims at saving resources by minimizing the use of material and energy over the entire life-cycle of products, including production and repair, as well as reuse and…

  6. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2020

    Innovation, Employment and the Business Cycle