Publications of the Research Unit Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics

  1. Expertises // 2014

    Innovationsindikator 2014

    The innovation indicator captures the conditions for innovation at the business location Germany and compares these with the worldwide leading industrial states. The innovation performance is captured and…

  2. Expertises // 2014

    The Potential Contribution of Innovation Systems to Socio-Ecological Transition

    European countries are currently faced with a variety of challenges, ranging from the new global distribution of economic activity, the diffusion of new, radical technologies to the aging of its population,…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-072 // 2014

    Invalid but Infringed? An Analysis of Germany’s Bifurcated Patent Litigation System

    We analyze the impact of the probabilistic nature of patents on the functioning of Germany’s bifurcated patent litigation system where infringement and validity of a patent are decided independently by different…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-064 // 2014

    Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier: Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands

    This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634…