The SPINTAN project aims at discovering the theoretical and empirical underpins of public intangible policies. It widens previous work carried out by Corrado, Hulten and Sichel (2005, 2009) including the public…
The purpose of the project is to analyse how firms’ extrovertedness affects their success. By extrovertedness we mean firms’ active use of social media and their passive presence in social media (media exposure).…
This project aims at analysing the complementarity of investment in patents and trademarks for firm performance by employing an extensive data set of European firms. Patents and trademarks are both intellectual…
The recent rise of smartphones and tablet PCs has undoubtedly been the most significant change in the market of end user computational devices over the last decade. An integral part of this revolution are…
Creativity is a fundamental transformative mechanism of the European economy. To study this mechanism, this project brings together eleven of Europe’s leading innovation research centres, and is structured around…
This subproject of the interdisciplinary project "Peer Productivity in Web 2.0 Environments" deals with the economic analysis of social links in online networks. It first and foremost considers Wikis, in…
The purpose of the project is to monitor the German cultural and creative economy and to analyse its strengths and weaknesses by several indicators. A yearly changing topic will be anlysed based on a firm-level…
The term “Green IT” summarizes several aspects related to energy and resource efficiency improvements due to the use of information and communication technologies (ICT). In light of increasing energy prices, Green…
The purpose of the project is to analyse whether quality differentiation in telecommunication services is a relevant determinant for firms' supply of new products and services, new business models or new or…