The primary objective of this research project is to produce a comprehensive study on the impact of market services on aggregate economic growth in the EU and its comparative performance relative to competitor…
The study analyses the ways how firms without in-house research and development (R&D) are able to successfully introduce product and process innovations. The study focuses on the following research questions:
Classifications of industries and products by their knowledge and technology intensity are an important input for analysis on technological competitiveness of countries and regions. They also serve as a valuable…
MEDPRO – Mediterranean Prospects is a consortium of 17 highly reputed institutions from throughout the Mediterranean funded under the EU’s 7th Framework Program and coordinated by the Centre for European Policy…
The objective of this study is a comparison of German support programs for venture capital with support programs in the following countries: USA, UK, France, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, and Japan. …
This project is a contribution to the European Commission's Report on European Competitiveness 2010. Its purpose is to analyse, for each of the five key enabling technologies (KETs) listed below, the current state…
This project is a contribution to the European Commission's Report on European Competitiveness 2010. It aims to analyse the role of foreign-owned firms for R&D and innovation in the European Union. A special focus…
Objective and motivation of the project: The projects objective is the assessment of the role of sustainability funds in the asset management of German charitable foundations. In this additional project the…
The German system of higher education currently faces many reforms concerning the organization of degrees, the profiling of universities and financing aspects. These reforms are mainly said to aim at the …
Legal interest rate restrictions have been a controversial issue among economists for centuries. In practice, several countries have imposed different rules on interest rate ceilings as well as the…
This subproject of the interdisciplinary project "An infrastructure for the analysis of social networks" deals with the economic analysis of social links in online networks. It considers networks for entertaining…