Among researchers from energy sciences and economics the topic of "Hydrogen as Energy Carrier" is being hotly debated. On the one hand there will be enthusiastic visions of the hydrogen economy, bolstering…
In recent years, information and communication technologies (ICT) have diffused rapidly in both economy and private life. A differentiated look at the tendencies of the ICT diffusion shows that not all population…
Syndication, which is the common financing of a project or an investment by several capital providers, is a long existing phenomenon that plays a central role in many segments of the financial market (e.g. credit…
The positive correlation of transport and economic developmet has in many cases been empirically tested and asserted. Nonetheless, a multitude of technically oriented investigations further results that contradict…
Countries react with very different speed to changes in their economic environment caused by globalisation and demographic change. In particular, the big countries of the Euro zone appear to be slow in adjusting…
This project continues on the CEPAM framework, which provides the IPTS with a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model that accommodates rigorous and comprehensive quantitative assessment of the economic impacts…
The increased use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) within companies is leading to several changes within the organizational structures. Since the process of producing goods and services is often…
Competitiveness is becoming to be more and more of a central criterion fort he assessment of policy-based intervention on national and EU levels. Adhering to this development is the internally projected fusion of…
In a time of growing numbers of patent applications and a more intensified discussion about the broadening of patentability and the linked changing of patent quality a differentiated investigation of the quality…
The Competitivess Report 2005 (CR 2005) includes a chapter developing a concept for a European Innovation Policy. The role of environmental technologies was discussed in the project as a contribution to the…
Within the Kyoto Protocol, the European Union has committed itself to substantial reductions in overall CO2 emissions. As an ongoing process, this commitment was broken down into sector and country specific…