Today, the Internet is already essential for the success of half of the companies in the German information economy. Most companies in the sector assume that until the end of 2014,…
Every year, the European Union and its Member States spend billions of euros for funding Research and Development (R&D) projects both in companies and public research organisations.…
This year's Heinz König Young Scholar Award goes to Jitao Tang,
Teaching Assistant at Rutgers University. Jitao Tang is already the ninth laureate of the award endowed by the Centre…
The euro crisis is putting a strain on the German economy. Economic growth will thus remain weak in the near future and will not improve until next year. The institutes forecast an…
Nowadays, thousands of patents are protecting innovative products like the smartphone. Such growing patent thickets increasingly hinder the innovation process of national economies.…
Holger Bonin, head of research department at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), accepts a professorship for economics at the University of Kassel starting on October 1,…