The paper deals with the effects of publicly funded research at universities, poly-technics and federal and state financed research labs on industrial innovations in Ger-many. In order to understand the current…
Dieser Beitrag stellt ausgewählte Ergebnisse des vom Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) im Auftrag des IAB und des Ministeriums für Arbeit und Soziales Rheinland-Pfalz bearbeiteten…
Established theories in international business come to different conclusions when specifically applied to the analysis of the international activities of start-up companies in high-technology industries. Using a…
This paper develops a three stage oligopoly game for R&D cooperation, R&D expenditure and product market competition. In the first stage, firms decide whether or not to conduct R&D in cooperation with other…
This paper investigates price discrimination of German exporters across different foreign markets. We examine the degree of pass-through of exchange rate fluctuations in the pricing of 70 export items. The model…
This paper deals with the innovation behavior and the R&D activities at the firm level in East Germany. The theoretical and empirical analyses lead to the conclusion that the relatively low level of the R&D…
The contribution of New Technology-based Firms (NTBFs) to long term economic development is at the centre of a controversial debate. The paper deals with the question whether NTBFs grow faster than…
Die Unternehmensinsolvenzen haben in den letzten Jahren einen Nachkriegsrekord erreicht. Daran konnte auch die wieder anziehende Konjunktur nichts ändern. In den meisten Fällen folgt auf die Insolvenz eines…