Due to increasing digitisation, our societal coexistence is faced with a variety of challenges on the one hand, but a plethora of opportunities on the other. With an interdisciplinary approach at its core, the…
Since the implementation of environmental regulations in the 1970s, there has been much debate about their potential effects on affected firms. Policymakers and firm representatives fear that incomplete regulation…
The innovation report for North Rhine-Westfalia provides a comprehensive analysis of the innovation system in NRW. The report covers seven broad thematic areas:• human capital, education and training• …
Politicians often use the assumption of positive employment effects of low-carbon technologies to support them. However there is little scientific evidence for this. We aim at empirically characterizing the local…
Nowadays, social media became one of the most important channels for information consumption by individuals. Due to the power of the digital “word-of-mouth”, businesses increasingly use social networks for the…
Productivity is generally regarded as a driver of economic growth and an indicator of a society's material well-being. However, many industrialized countries have experienced declining productivity growth and…
The project aimed at identifying interdisciplinary topics in R&D projects that received funding from the BMBF's Direct Project Funding schemes, based on a semantic analysis.
For a long period, the financing conditions for young innovative companies have been a research area of the ZEW research department “Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics” in various studies. These…
The aim of the project is a simple and efficient distribution of food donations. This is made possible by the development of an online platform as an interface between food banks and companies from the industry…
With this proposal we put forward two separate paper ideas. In the first paper connecting SLR to corruption, we build upon the models of Nováĉková and Tol (2018), Escaleras et al. (2007), Escaleras and Register…
The aim of this research was to collect data on innovation activities of the business enterprise sector in the State of Berlin in the years 2016 to 2018 as well as the planned innovation activities in 2019 and…
The aim of this research was to collect data on innovation activities of the business enterprise sector in the State of Saxony in the years 2016 to 2018 as well as the planned innovation activities in 2019 and…