The project investigates the economic importance of trade secrets (TS) and their relationship to intellectual property rights (IR) and other appropriability mechanisms. The study will be composed of two parts: A…
Innovation has been placed at the heart of the Europe 2020 strategy, notably in order to tackle major societal challenges such as climate change, energy scarcity, health and ageing. The Innovation Union (IU) has…
The project analyses the role of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for research and innovation in Germany. On the one hand, it estimates the contribution of SMEs in quantitative terms, including…
The aim of this project is to develop and apply a methodology to analyse regional specialization in trade and production of regions within the EU using the concept of Revealed Comparative Advantages. So far,…
The Austrian Report on Research and Technology summarises state and development of research and technology in Austria and presents government activities to promote scientific research and innovation in Austria. As…
This project aims to better understand the key enabling technology landscape and the regional reach of the FP7 and Horizon 2020 funding with regard to nanotechnology, advanced materials, advanced manufacturing and…
The aim of this research is to determine the extent and scope of innovation activities of the business enterprise sector in the city of Berlin in the years 2012 to 2014 as well as the planned innovation activities…
Based on a qualitative survey the role and importance of engineers in the organisation and orientation of firms innovation activities and for the cooperation with scientific institutions were analysed. Thereby the…
The aim of this project is to extend our knowledge about the drivers and consequences of both the adoption and creation of energy-saving and more generally energy-related innovation. Based on a firm-level analysis…