Das Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) hat im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Technologie eine umfassende Analyse des Sektors der Familienunternehmen in Deutschland erstellt. …
Innovation success depends heavily on firm's ability to set priorities and select the most promising options from its project portfolio before the odds of success or failure become visible and reliable. We ask:…
University technology transfer has attracted considerable attention in the literature with a focus on the institutions, the agents involved in technology commercialisation or the differentiation between formal…
Literature has identified formal and informal channels in university technology transfer. While formal technology transfer typically involves a legal contract on a patent or on collaborative research…
This paper investigates the drivers and the effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based on a large data set of German firms. We look at different stages of the innovation process…