Climate change mitigation and air pollution control are timely and important challenges that are strongly intertwined. Climate change mitigation efforts often bring along co-benefits such as local air quality…
Against the background of the strong immigration to Germany in recent years, the role of the welfare state and its legitimacy are discussed controversially. On the one hand, social policy supports the integration…
The Kopernikus project SynErgie addresses the challenge of harmonizing the generation with the consumption of electricity in a future with a high proportion of wind and solar power. The focus is on the design…
Country-by-country reporting aims at improving tax transparency by requiring multinational firms to disclose certain tax-related data on a per-country basis. The reports are supposed to help tax authorities in…
The project evaluated the programme "ERP Digitalisation and Innovation Loan" which is run by the state-owned banking group KfW. The Evaluation focused on programme activities during the years 2017 and 2019. The…
With their decisions on production, regulation and consumption, business, politics and society have a strong influence on how climate change will develop in the future. At the same time, we lack knowledge in…
The project aims at developing new indicators for measuring networks of innovative firms, using different data sources and employing different methods:
Interactions among firms and between firms and other…
The project aims at analysing input and output additionality of publicly funded R&D projects in Saxony in the EU funding period started in 2014. The analysis looks at projects that were funded by the Federal State…
The project aims at analysing three issues related to the definition of research and development (R&D) with respect to a planned R&D tax incentive in Germany:
Evaluating the practicality of the R&D definition of…
The project (coordination: Prognos AG)analyses the significance of three demand components for technology parks in Baden-Wuerttemberg, considering both existing parks (Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Göppingen,…
The population share of high-skilled workers has a positive effect on regional development. The higher the qualification in a region, the higher the value added, productivity and wages. Although the proportion of…