Research and Development both have an important role for increasing productivity, as well as for the innovative capability of an economy. For some time, there has been discussion on…
A recent ZEW study among 2000 entrepreneurs shows that in 2007, research and innovation gained more and more importance. Compared with 2006, research expenditures may raise by 7 per…
The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany decreased in December 2007 once again and now stands at minus 37.2 points after minus 32.5 points in the previous month. This is…
The new members of the Supervisory Board of the Centre for European Economic Research GmbH (ZEW), Mannheim, are State Secretary Dr. Dietrich Birk MdL, Ministry of Science, Research…
On the whole, 58 per cent of German companies partially or entirely outsource business processes such as, for instance, human resources or accounting to external service providers.…
In 2006, the number of companies offering corporate services increased considerably. Compared to the previous year, the number of start-ups in this economic sector rose by four per…
The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany decreased significantly in November 2007 and now stands at minus 32.5 points after minus 18.1 points in the previous month. This is…
Nowadays, about 64 per cent of the companies in Germany entirely or partly subcontract IT services such as the installation of hardware and software as well as programming services to…
The wave of acquisitions in the German energy industry has subsided. Current examinations by Dr. Patrick Beschorner and Martina Lauk of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)…