Inventors are of key importance for the success of the research and development activities of companies. This is reflected in the high share of nearly 70% of personnel costs in total R&D expenditures. As a…
During the last decades, enterprises in industrialised countries have increasingly outsourced parts of their value chain to external suppliers. This development is particularly pronounced in the field of IT…
The study aims at analysing and evaluating goals, measures, successes and obstacles regarding the internationalisation of German research and science. This covers international activities of individual…
The availability of external capital is of central importance for German small and medium-sized enterprises. In the bank-based financial system of Germany bank loans have an important role for the financial…
This project examined aspects related to the transformation of the German college sector towards more competition. The project had two phases. In the first phase the differences in graduate school programmes were…
The aim of the project was to provide input to policy makers on policies that could meet the goals of the Lisbon Agenda in the way of stimulating economic growth, employment and the environment at the same time.…
The Social Code II (SGB II) has been introduced on January 1st 2005 and governs the merging of the former Unemployment Assistance (UA) and Social Assistance (SA) for able-bodied recipients. This project originates…
The project is concerned with so-called restarts, i.e. the firm foundations of previously failed entrepreneurs. The data base is comprised by the ZEW Start-Up Panels. On the one hand the typical characteristics of…
The IVU Traffic Technologies AG has expanded the tax data base of the Ministry of Finance. The data base hosts data on tax revenue developments and estimates of tax revenue changes due to new laws.In the project,…
One crucial feature of most industrial countries tax-and-transfer system is the disincentive to work for the low qualified. The Swiss legislation commissioned an international expert group to assess the…