On 27 July 2022, the Federal Cabinet adopted a comprehensive start-up strategy aimed at strengthening start-up ecosystems in Germany and Europe. Within the framework of the start-up strategy, measures will be…
In this research project ZEW contributes to the design and analysis of an enterprise survey in the Metropolitan Region Rhine-Neckar which collects data on the potential for strengthening a bioeconomy in the…
Due to several societal and economic trends, the importance of financial education is increasing as financial decisions become more complex and riskier. At the same time, financial education in Germany is still in…
Digital platforms largely transform the creator economy. By providing easy access for content producers and content consumers, decentralized information sharing has implications for democracy and culture, as…
The purpose of the project is to provide a basic data set for the evaluation of the Central Innovation Programme for SMEs (ZIM) and to provide support services for using this data set in the context of the…
This project assesses the impact of social insurance on informal Long-Term-Care (LTC) provision by family members in Germany. Family members are the most important providers of informal outpatient LTC. While…
In Germany, women currently obtain 40 percent less pension income than men. In collaboration with media companies, corporate partners and financial institutions, the project aims to create a communication toolbox…
The aim of this research is to collect data on innovation activities of the business enterprise sector in the State of Berlin in the years 2020 to 2022 as well as the planned innovation activities in 2023 and…
Social media have lately become one of the primary information channels for many individuals, which was exacerbated during the recent pandemic. As such, social media is a major example of the ambivalence of…
The Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship Program is a globally competitive fellowship program for early and mid-career researchers whose work is dedicated to improving the learning and development of children and…
In this project, I focus on the potential impairment of the bank lending channel of monetary policy easing for weakly capitalized banks. I show this in two steps. First, I show through a theoretical model how…
The project aims at preparing the European innovation survey for the reference year 2024 (Community Innovation Survey – CIS 2024) and the production of a methodological manual for conducting the CIS.