As the European debt crisis grinds on, some countries, especially Italy and Spain, have complained that despite having initiated reforms they must pay "unreasonably" high interest rates to finance their…
In many areas of technology, the road to new products leads through a dense thicket of existing patents that threatens to hinder innovation. A new ZEW study has found that patent rights are often distributed…
The Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) and the Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation (MaCCI) held the International Conference on the Dynamics of Entrepreneurship (CoDE) October 4-5, 2012. The…
Professor Michael Waterson, PhD, was visiting researcher at the ZEW Research Group "Competition and Regulation" from September 17-25, 2012. Michal Waterson is Professor at the University of Warwick, UK. He was…
