Publications of the Research Unit Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics

This paper investigates the effect of mobility among a firm’s R&D personnel on its innovation performance. Since knowledge created within an R&D department of a firm is largely embodied in the person of the…

In the 1980s, the European Union (EU) started to develop its own technology policy independent from the member states. Since then the Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP) has…

• EXIST: Bisher keine messbaren Effekte auf die Anzahl der Unternehmensgründungen
• Gründungen aus Arbeitslosigkeit: Aktuelle Entwicklungen und Strukturen

• Less M&A Activity in Greece
• Strategic Restructuring of E.ON
• Significant Rise in Transaction Values
• Telecommunications Liberalisation Drives Transaction Activity
• The Big Players Are Getting Bigger in the…

• Immigration Barely Affects Approval for Government Unemployment Assistance
• Reformation of Bank Supervisory Boards
• SMEs a Stabilising Force in the Crisis
• Rising Age of High-tech Founders
• Corporate Taxes in Europe –…

Many new firms do not survive the first years in business. Even though, the financial risk for the parties that have a financial stake in the business (i.e. owners, lending institutions and other creditors, such…

Access to external financing is of high importance to companies for the financing of fixed investments. Investment in fixed assets occurs in irregular intervals and requires relatively large amounts of…