Around 20 percent of the companies based in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg currently assess their business situation as positive. 23 percent assess it as negative. About 57…
For years, Heidelberg University and the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim have worked closely together in the realm of economic research. Now these two…
Driven by the relatively strong economic climate in 2007, German businesses increased their investments in innovation. In 2007, the German economy added more than six percent to its…
Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is a common practice used by a total of 42 percent of companies in Baden-Württemberg working in the IT and media sectors or IT user industries. This…
The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany increased in January 2009 once again. The indicator rose by 14.2 points and now stands at minus 31.0 points after minus 45.2 points…
One-third of German-based Service Providers of the Information Society – an economic sector that includes ICT service providers as well as knowledge-intensive service providers –…
In the fourth quarter 2008 the economic situation for businesses in the sector service providers of the information society slightly recovered. The ZEW-IDI, a sentiment indicator for…
The dispute between Russia, a gas producer, and the Ukraine, a transit country for gas delivery, has had consequences in particular for Eastern European EU member states, and has…
Germany needs tax incentives for research and development (R&D) that provide non-bureaucratic R&D support without preference for certain technologies – this is the finding of a…