In a time of growing numbers of patent applications and a more intensified discussion about the broadening of patentability and the linked changing of patent quality a differentiated investigation of the quality…
R&D policy in the field of energy is directly insistent upon political framework conditions of the energy policy, which itself is substantiated by its goal-setting towards sufficiently warranted supply,…
The project FAZIT analysed current and future developments of the IT and media sector in the state of Baden-Württemberg as well as the significance of IT and media technologies for economy and society for the time…
Within the Kyoto Protocol, the European Union has committed itself to substantial reductions in overall CO2 emissions. As an ongoing process, this commitment was broken down into sector and country specific…
The Competitivess Report 2005 (CR 2005) includes a chapter developing a concept for a European Innovation Policy. The role of environmental technologies was discussed in the project as a contribution to the…
The increased use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) within companies is leading to several changes within the organizational structures. Since the process of producing goods and services is often…
Although at the ZEW microeconomic and microeconometric research approaches are dominant, each research department at the ZEW always takes the macroeconomic environment into account as well. “Analysis of Growth and…
Countries react with very different speed to changes in their economic environment caused by globalisation and demographic change. In particular, the big countries of the Euro zone appear to be slow in adjusting…
This research scheme initially analysed the long-term potential for the use of project-based mechanisms (JI & CDM) in Germany and identified project categories for JI and CDM-projects that are particularly…
The EU has ambitious goals in terms of economic performance. The goals are to be reached in combination with social cohesion and sustainable development in terms of environment. The key economic policy instruments…
The negotiations on the new financial framework for the EU 2007-2013 are burdened with large differences in national interests. On the one hand the EU entry of countries with substantial economic backwardness puts…
The use of information and communication technologies (ICT) has brought about substantial changes within enterprises and work environment. For example, results from a ZEW survey on the diffusion of ICT reveal…