The ongoing recession and the declining industrial production coming along with it have, for the time being, ended the rise in energy prices in Germany. The prices for electricity,…
In 2009 companies in Baden-Württemberg expect their investment activities to decrease significantly compared to the year before. This includes total investments as well as investments…
Many German banks are forced to alter their business models as a result of the international financial market crisis. Retail banking will gain in importance while investment banking…
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 –…