Today the diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICT) has reached almost any sector. It has led companies to adapt their business organization and to restructure business processes. The fact that…
Within the scope of this project, the ZEW conducted a survey with roughly 200 IT-experts and persons in charge from the information systems of companies of the manufacturing industry and selected service…
The EU aims to promote science and encourage researchers to work together with each other and with businesses. To this end, it launched the Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP) in…
The aim of the study is to provide information on the consequences that the adoption of a Common Corporate Tax Base (CCTB) would have on the size of the corporate tax bases of EU companies located in each of…
For the well-functioning of a common currency, convergence of business cycles in participating is of considerable importance. In the absence of convergence, monetary policy will not satisfy the needs of all,…
The aim of the project is to assess the competitiveness of Germany as an international financial centre compared to main European competitors (Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, UK). In the first part of the…
The purpose of the project is a preliminary descriptive analysis of the microstructure of EU CO2 emissions allowances (EUAs) markets and an assessment of market shares of German corporations in the European…
It is the aim of this project to analyse production systems from an organisational and economic perspective. At the one hand, the effects of age-structure among the employees in combination with different…
On account of the different dynamics of the development of the supply and demand of academic graduates, there is, at least temporarily, expected to be a shortage, especially in the engineering and natural science…
The Federal State of Baden-Wuerttemberg is among the regions in Europe with the highest research spending per GDP. Among the many factors contributing to this performance, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)…
STRIKE is a European-wide research network in innovation economics that brings together researchers from 21 European countries.The main objective of the network is to improve our understanding of the process of…