The purpose of the project is evaluate the Central Innovation Programme for SMEs (ZIM) with a focus on funding that has been provided in accordance with the funding guidelines that have been in force since 2020.…
The aim of this study is to update a report on key innovation indicators for the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. In a concise way, the study offers an overview on the state and recent developments in…
In this research project ZEW contributes to the design and analysis of an enterprise survey in the Metropolitan Region Rhine-Neckar which collects data on the potential for strengthening a bioeconomy in the…
Due to several societal and economic trends, the importance of financial education is increasing as financial decisions become more complex and riskier. At the same time, financial education in Germany is still in…
The purpose of the project is to provide a basic data set for the evaluation of the Central Innovation Programme for SMEs (ZIM) and to provide support services for using this data set in the context of the…
The aim of this research is to collect data on innovation activities of the business enterprise sector in the State of Saxony in the years 2020 to 2022 as well as the planned innovation activities in 2023 and…
This project assesses the impact of social insurance on informal Long-Term-Care (LTC) provision by family members in Germany. Family members are the most important providers of informal outpatient LTC. While…
The federal government wants to change the employment allowances for recipients of basic social security benefits in such a way as to strengthen labor supply incentives and avoid the sometimes very high effective…
The aim of this research is to collect data on innovation activities of the business enterprise sector in the State of Brandenburg in the years 2020 to 2022 as well as the planned innovation activities in 2023 and…
The study aims at developing a master plan for the "Mittelstand" (i.e., the group of small, medium-sized or family-owned businesses) in Baden-Wuerttemberg that can guide economic policy in supporting this group of…
In this project, I focus on the potential impairment of the bank lending channel of monetary policy easing for weakly capitalized banks. I show this in two steps. First, I show through a theoretical model how…