This project will use a natural experiment to identify the causal effects of transferring patent rights to the university on the incentives for academic researchers to produce and publicly disseminate new…
Female labour force participation and fertility rates have been very low in Germany, particularly among women with a university degree. Long career breaks and their high opportunity costs may explain both facts.…
The economic literature widely recognizes that innovation and investments in new technologies constitute cornerstones for the performance of competitive companies and national economic growth. Innovation and…
This project collects information on the activities of member states and associated countries to meet the objectives of the European Research Area (ERA) through a set of indicators for each of the following five…
The objective of the project was to identify and construct forward-looking indicators in order to assess the developments in the markets of selected sectors and regularly deliver them to Evonik Industries AG…
The purpose of the project is to monitor firm formation dynamics in industries relevant for the transformation to clean energy production and energy savings. In a first step, relevant industries are identified and…
For several years the European Commission has tried to facilitate private damage compensation claims against cartelists. The Commission aims for a better deterrence as well as for an appropriate compensation for…
In this project, the situation of the SME sector in the federal state of Bremen is analysed. The objective is to create a data base which can be used as a basis for the assessment of the current situation of the…
The recent rise of smartphones and tablet PCs has undoubtedly been the most significant change in the market of end user computational devices over the last decade. An integral part of this revolution are…
Creativity is a fundamental transformative mechanism of the European economy. To study this mechanism, this project brings together eleven of Europe’s leading innovation research centres, and is structured around…
This project aimed at examining the interactions between the three actors on the market for charitable giving – donors, charities, and the state – both theoretically and empirically. The empirical analyses were…
A trend of more and tighter export restrictions could be observed for many natural resources in recent years. Raw materials used to produce stainless steel are known to be affected in particular. These…