Environmental issues play a role of ever increasing significance in the discussion of the development of future technologies in Germany, as it is primarily the economies of developed nations that are charged with…
Basic research in life sciences in Germany is well established in international comparison. A central problem of the life sciences in Germany, however, concerns the transfer of research results into commercial…
Competitiveness is becoming to be more and more of a central criterion fort he assessment of policy-based intervention on national and EU levels. Adhering to this development is the internally projected fusion of…
In a time of growing numbers of patent applications and a more intensified discussion about the broadening of patentability and the linked changing of patent quality a differentiated investigation of the quality…
The present study builds on the results of an earlier 2003 project on the role of the chemical industry in driving innovation in other branches. The key aspects considered are recent developments regarding the…