This project analyses effectiveness of different age-specific production systems on the outcome variables productivity, turnover, and age structure of the workforce from a human resource as well as an economic…
Impact Assessment (IA) has the potential for delivering more sustainable development as well asenhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of decision making. Policies aiming at sustainabledevelopment need a solid…
The research project analyses the financing strategies of different housing market agents, their changes and underlying determinants, and the corresponding impact on the housing markets. Particularly…
A change of owners and managers constitutes a critical phase for each firm. The lack of timely and thorough arrangements of the company succession leads in the practise to firm crises and closures. Company…
In Germany, the knowledge-based production and development infrastructure is an important feature of the biotechnological industry. Technologic impulses for new products, methods and services frequently occur in…
The project analyses, whether the regulatory framework of “Riester pensions” and basic pensions (“Rürup pensions”) matches the information demand of private investors. It will be discussed whether financial…
Labour market programmes for promotion of young people below 25 years within Social Code II and Social Code III have up to now only been evaluated partially, non-systematically or by surveying the programmes.…
Innovation is widely considered to be a key long-term driving force for economic growth. Hence, stimulating business innovation is attached a high importance on the political agenda. Government policies can…
The “internet of services” was the object of a study which the Berlecon Research carried out in cooperation with Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC), the International School of Service Management (ISS) and the Centre…
Innovation is considered critical to sustained development both in Europe and in China. At the Lisbon summit in March 2000, the European Union decided to become by the year 2010 the most competitive…
An economic policy wanting to maintain high incentives for innovation activity and creativity of firms by a steady competition must be interested in a dynamic development of business formation activities and,…
The introduction of the new Insolvency Act in 1999 was accompanied by great expectations. The greatest hope of the reformers was that, under the new Act, people regard insolvency as an opportunity for…