Publications of the Research Unit Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics

While the benefits of patents for society as well as for patentees have extensively been studied in the theoretical and empirical economics of innovation literature, researchers in recent years have more and…

• Innovation as a Way Out of the Debt Crisis
• The Personal Attributes of Finance Ministers Affect the Development of Public Debt
• Low Corporate Taxes Promote Investment
• KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel – Strategy is Decisive
• Ques…

The ZEW Innovation Survey

• Since 1993, ZEW has been collecting data on the innovation behaviour in the German economy on an annual basis.
• The Innovation Survey is commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of…

The creation of spinoff companies is often promoted as a desirable mechanism for transferring knowledge and technologies from research organizations to the private sector for commercialization. However, when…