Publications of the Research Unit Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics

  1. ZEW Documentation No. 17-04 // 2017

    Innovation Activities of Firms in Germany – Results of the German CIS 2012 and 2014

    Innovation is regarded as a key driver of productivity and market growth and thus has a great potential for increasing wealth. Surveying innovation activities of firms is an important contribution to a better…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2017

    Does energy policy hurt international competitiveness of firms? A comparative study for Germany, Switzerland and Austria

    This paper investigates the impact of energy policies on the export performance of firms. There has been a long policy debate on potentially negative impacts of cost-increasing energy policies on international…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2017

    Development and utilization of energy-related technologies, economic performance and the role of policy instruments

    The present study investigates the effects of energy-related technologies on economic performance at firm level. We distinguish clearly between adoption and use of energy-related technologies (process innovation…

  4. ZEWnews English edition // 2017

    03/04 - 2017

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 17-018 // 2017

    Inventor Mobility Index: A Method to Disambiguate Inventor Careers

    Usually patent data does not contain any unique identifiers for the patenting assignees or the inventors, as the main tasks of patent authorities is the examination of applications and the administration of the…