The collapse of the coalition talks in Berlin risks squandering a key opportunity to shape Germany’s energy transition by linking ecological goals with efficient economic regulation. The clean-energy transition…
Andreas Distel, PhD, was a visiting researcher in ZEW’s Research Department “Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics” from 30 November until 4 December 2017. He works as a postdoctoral researcher at the…
Will artificial intelligence soon take over customer service? Discussions on automation have tended to focus heavily on the use of robotics in the production sector. Yet service robots endowed with artificial…
The significance of the ICT (information and communication technologies) sector for the German economy has continued to grow, with gross value added in this sector rising by 3.8 per cent to 105 billion euros in…
