Publications of the Research Unit Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics

• Kommt der Aufschwung im Jahr 2000?
• Die voraussichtliche Lage in der EWU
• ZEW-Finanzmarkttest: Ergebnisse der Umfrage im April 1999
• Monetäre Instrumente und die Absorption von Schocks vor der EWU
• Deutscher…

• Tax Reform: Only Few Growth Impulses
• Are Cities the Centres of Innovation?
• Biomass: A Promising Energy Source
• Results of the Survey in January 1999
• The End of the Depreciation Threat
• Pricing Strategies on Export…

Based on the data of the first wave of the Mannheim Innovation panel, this paper explores the link between R&D expenditures and patents. Our data allow a detailed analysis of the firm size distribution of R&D…

This paper builds on the repeatedly documented empirical observation that flows of international patent applications are closely related to international trade relationships. In the first part of this paper we…