This project is a contribution to the European Commission's Report on European Competitiveness 2010. It aims to analyse the role of foreign-owned firms for R&D and innovation in the European Union. A special focus…
This project is a contribution to the European Commission's Report on European Competitiveness 2010. Its purpose is to analyse, for each of the five key enabling technologies (KETs) listed below, the current state…
The objective of the INDICSER project is to develop indicators which provide information on the performance of service sectors in the EU. At the heart of the project are concerns that such indicators should be…
The project focuses on the international context of collective reform decisions in the public sector. The project has two key objectives: First it will deepen our theoretical understanding of the cross-border…
Objective and motivation of the project: The projects objective is the assessment of the role of sustainability funds in the asset management of German charitable foundations. In this additional project the…
The aim of the project was to define the operational determinants of IT outsourcing, using data of the ZEW ICT-survey and adequate statistically-econometric methods.Central to this analysis was the question of…
The core of this project is the analysis of research questions in various areas of applied competition policy. It aims at promoting economic and econometric work in competition policy cases and regulation issues.…
The German Taxpayer Panel which is provided by the Federal Statistical Office and which has recently been developed, offers very rich data for the empirical analysis of tax effects. So far, this data set has…
Companies that newly enter the market face the challenge of generating a competitive advantage over their rivals. Research and development activities (R&D) as well as the implementation of product or process…
The objective of this research network was the use of innovative approaches to shed light on questions regarding a long-term and integrated climate and energy policy from an economic perspective. First, the…
The German system of higher education currently faces many reforms concerning the organization of degrees, the profiling of universities and financing aspects. These reforms are mainly said to aim at the …