Projects of the Research Unit Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics

Laufende Projekte

  1. Project // 01.10.2023 – 30.09.2026

    Private Business Schools in Germany: An Analysis of Competition, Networks and Strategies

    The project examines the role of non-state (private) business schools in Germany. The focus is on the positioning of private business schools in the national and international environment and in competition with…

  2. Project // 01.07.2023 – 30.06.2026

    Private Universities: Economic Significance for Firms and Startups

    Although private universities have a long-standing tradition in many countries, there has been limited research on this type of higher education institution. This knowledge gap also extends to the question of the…

  3. Project // 01.05.2023 – 31.05.2024

    Importance of Works Councils in Start-up Companies

    On 27 July 2022, the Federal Cabinet adopted a comprehensive start-up strategy aimed at strengthening start-up ecosystems in Germany and Europe. Within the framework of the start-up strategy, measures will be…

  4. Project // 01.02.2023 – 31.01.2024

    Innovation Survey 2023 for Berlin

    The aim of this research is to collect data on innovation activities of the business enterprise sector in the State of Berlin in the years 2020 to 2022 as well as the planned innovation activities in 2023 and…

  5. Project // 01.09.2022 – 31.07.2026

    Creation of a Representative Data Base of Young Firms in North Rhine-Westfalia

    The sample for the IAB/ZEW Start-up Panel will be extended so that the start-ups in NRW are representated. The NRW.BANK is interested in having a micro database at its disposal that enables analyzing the…

  6. Project // 01.06.2022 – 31.05.2026

    Monitoring of the Participating of Small and Medium-Sized Companies (SMEs) within the Federal Direct R&D Project Funding (DPF) - Classification of Firms

    The aim of the project is to classify the recipients of the Federal Direct R&D Project Funding (DPF) with regard to their belonging to the group of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) based on different SME…

  7. Project // 01.12.2021 – 30.09.2026

    BERD@NFDI for Business, Economic and Related Data

    The mission of BERD@NFDI is to develop a future-oriented and powerful research data infrastructure for the integrated management of unstructured data and scientific software for its subject community. With this…

  8. Project // 15.10.2020 – current

    Restructuring and Extension of a Sample of the KfW Business Survey Panel

    The “Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau” (KfW) has been establishing a firm panel on the basis of paper-and-pencil interviews which is representative of medium-sized and large companies since 2002. Companies of all…

  9. 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…