Publications of the Research Unit Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 10-048 // 2010

    Against the One-way-street: Analyzing Knowledge Transfer from Industry to Science

    The expansion of higher education has lead to a continuously increasing number of jobs that deal with scientific problems and methods (Gibbons 1994). In science based industries like the biotechnology industry…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 10-039 // 2010

    Innovation, Competition and Incentives for R&D

    Exploring the links between the type of innovation and the type of competition is essential to understand the mutual impacts of competition policy and innovation policy. This is of particular importance for…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 10-032 // 2010

    Churning of R&D Personnel and Innovation

    This paper investigates the effect of mobility among a firm’s R&D personnel on its innovation performance. Since knowledge created within an R&D department of a firm is largely embodied in the person of the…