This project examined a unique sample of 600 independent young high-tech firms which were originally surveyed in the Anglo-German Foundation study of "The Rapid Internationalisation of High Tech Young Firms in…
The increase in correlations amongst, for example, international stock markets might be a factor that increases the correlations amongst business cycles and could also speed up the international transmission of…
In general, the aim of the project is to estimate the returns to education and the spread of wages for West - Germany, based on the wage und structural census (GLS) 1990 and 1995.In the first part of the project…
In a combined effort with the business information agency Creditreform, the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) conducted a quarterly survey among service providers for the information society during 2002…
The target of this major-study is the development and evaluation of concrete approaches to integrate the transport sector into a CO2-Emissions-Trading-System. The three approaches, the upstream-approach with fixed…
Modern information and communication technologies (ICT) have strongly penetrated all business sectors in recent years. Furthermore, increasing digitalisation changes our economic activity and the way we…
The increased implementation of modern information and communication technologies is leading to observable changes within the organizational structures of the economy. A "virtualization" can be observed in the…
This project explored various channels how advances in information and communication technologies (ICT) affect the production potentials and the innovation capacities of enterprises. The main focus was to assess…
<HTML>The rapid diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the workplace has been accompanied by vivid discussions in public and among economic scholars. In this project, the impact of ICT on…
In this project, the IAB model is subejected to continued development in three respects: (1) Interfacing of the model for interactive control, (2) integration of an alternative benchmark data set for 1998, (3)…
Patents are increasingly being used as strategic instruments in competitive markets. The signalling character of patents as indicator of indicating high innovation dynamics has increased over the past ten years,…