Projects of the Research Unit Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics

Laufende Projekte

  1. Project // 01.07.2020 – current

    Linkage Between the Identifiers of the Mannheim Enterprise Panel and Establishment Data of the German Federal Agency of Labor

    Within the scope of a cooperation between the Research Data Centre of the Federal Employment Agency at the IAB (BA-FDZ), Creditreform e.V. and ZEW, the operational data of the Federal Employment Agency, or more…

  2. Project // 01.06.2019 – 31.03.2025

    Measurement of the Digitalisation of the German Economy

    The purpose of the project is to measure the digitalisation of the German economy and to track its development over time. The results will serve as an…

  3. Project // 01.04.2015 – 31.07.2026

    Creation of a Representative Data Base of Young Firms in Baden-Wuerttemberg

    The sample for the IAB/ZEW Start-up Panel will be extended so that the start-ups in Baden-Württemberg can be displayed more representatively. The L-Bank Baden-Württemberg is interested in having a micro database…

  4. Project // 01.01.2014 – current

    IAB/ZEW Start-up Panel

    In order to determine the general conditions for founders, an empirically established, broad and continuously…

  5. Project // 01.01.2011 – current

    Time-series on Firm Formation Dynamics

    Time-series data on firm formation dynamics in Germany is available since 1995. The data provides information on the intensity of foundation activities on different regional levels and industries. The intensity of…

  6. Project // 01.03.1995 – 30.11.2027

    Mannheim Innovation Panel: Innovation Activities of Enterprises in Germany

    The Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) has been collecting data on innovation activities of the German enterprise sector since 1993 on an annual basis through a representative survey. The…

  7. Project // 01.01.1992 – current

    The Mannheim Enterprise Panel

    The Mannheim Enterprise Panel (MUP) is a panel dataset maintained by ZEW since 1992 that covers almost the entire population of enterprises in Germany. The MUP is the most extensive firm-level panel dataset for…

Abgeschlossene Projekte

  1. Project // 01.06.2025 – 31.01.2026

    2025 Data-Report on Innovation Behaviour of Saxony‘s Economy

    The aim of this research is to collect data on innovation activities of the business enterprise sector in the State of Saxony in the years 2022 to 2024 as well as the planned innovation activities in 2025 and…

  2. Project // 01.05. – 31.12.2025

    Start-ups and Innovation Trends in the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region

    The project aims to produce a brief report on R&D and innovation indicators for the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region (MRN) and, based on this, to analyze two aspects in depth:

    • The structure, development, and…