Publications of the Research Unit Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics

  1. ZEW policy brief No. 20-02 // 2020

    Covid-19 Crisis and the Expected Effects on R&D in Businesses

    The measures to slow the spread of the Covid-19 virus have brought large parts of the global economy to a standstill. This is likely to push Germany and many other countries into a deep recession in 2020. The…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2020

    Public Procurement of Innovation: Evidence from a German Legislative Reform

    Using public procurement to promote private innovation activities has attracted increasing attention recently. Germany implemented a legal change in its procurement framework in 2009, which allowed government…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-018 // 2020

    R&D Investment Under Financing Constraints

    This paper tests for the sensitivity of R&D to financing constraints conditional on restrictions in external financing. Financing constraints of firms are identified by an exogenously calculated rating index.…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-012 // 2020

    The Value of Publicly Available, Textual and Non-textual Information For Startup Performance Prediction

    Can publicly available, web-scraped data be used to identify promising business startups at an early stage? To answer this question, we use such textual and non-textual information about the names of Danish…