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Publications // 21.11.2024
study investigates the joint effect of R&D grants and R&D tax credits on R&D inputs and innovation outputs. We estimate Conditional Difference-in-Difference (CDiD) models and apply both treatment [...] positive treatment effects for both grants and tax credits on R&D employment, R&D employment intensity, and total R&D expenditures. R&D tax credits have a significant positive impact on the share
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Press Releases // 25.11.2024energy-intensive companies and for companies that were only slightly affected by the energy price increases. Additional energy-related investments did not supplant modernisation and innovation activities [...] data from the German Community Innovation Survey (CIS) and sheds light on adaptation strategies adopted by German companies. - “Our analysis shows that energy-intensive companies were particularly affected [...] ent technologies,” says Dr. Christian Rammer, deputy head of ZEW’s Research Unit “Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics”. “The adaptations did cause short-term cost increases, but in the long
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Publications // 18.11.2024
relocation or closure of energy intensive activities, or replacing fossil by other energy sources. The analysis is based on data from the German part of the Community Innovation Survey (CIS). The econometric [...] show that high energy costs can lead to stopping or relocating energy-intensive activities. Furthermore, firms with high energy intensity show negative sales growth from 2022 to 2023.
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News // 24.07.2024long been on the table. Distributional issues, such as those that may arise between electricity-intensive industry in the south and offshore wind farm operators in the north, can also be resolved without [...] Such price differences are also crucial for efficient investment decisions, flexibility decisions, innovation incentives and thus the resilience of the electricity market in the transition to a sustainable
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News // 25.06.2024like Saarland or Baden-Württemberg, which rely heavily on internal combustion engines and energy-intensive industries. HB: Do people need to move to places like Brandenburg to work at Tesla? Not necessarily [...] technologies needed to achieve climate neutrality. Prosperity is created in sectors where we lead in innovation. This is already the case today. These are the sectors that are strong in exports and pay the highest [...] new financial resources? First of all, we should look at defence more as an opportunity. Many innovations, especially in the US, have come from military research. It’s similar in Israel. Here, everything
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Press Releases // 23.05.2024only has the number of innovative companies decreased, but also the innovation projects of the surveyed companies have become less effective: With the same effort, fewer innovations are being developed,” [...] Dr. Sandra Gottschalk, a researcher in ZEW’s “Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics” Unit. “There is a downward trend in innovation activity, especially among young companies in the manufacturing [...] industry experienced an even steeper decline of 16 per cent. The figures are also alarming in research-intensive industries such as chemistry, pharmaceuticals, and medical technology. This is the result of an
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Press Releases // 15.01.2024creates incentives for increased consumption in agricultural production, thus encouraging an energy-intensive and environmentally harmful production method. Farmers already have ways to lower diesel consumption [...] for manufacturers of agricultural machinery to offer more fuel-efficient machines or to advance innovations towards hybrid and alternative drive systems. Subsidising a fossil fuel has become an anachronism
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Publications // 02.01.2024
via the process of innovation. First, downstream competition increases the willingness to pay for a more efficient technology (the direct effect). Second, a sufficiently large innovation may offer the licensees [...] to survive in the market (the indirect effect). More specifically, if competition is intense, even a tiny innovation may result in drastic effects in the market. This work also demonstrates that royalties [...] a superior technology because of competition's indirect effect on innovation. If granted the possibility of denying access to innovation to some downstream manufacturers, an inventor or rights holder may
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News // 20.12.2023can Germany sustain its innovative edge? And if so, how? Innovation spending, especially by companies with over 250 employees, has risen. However, the percentage of innovative companies has steadily declined [...] especially in knowledge-intensive industries. This raises hopes that these start-ups will contribute to a German innovation model 2.0, characterised by both solidity and more radical innovations. [...] Germany is characterised by innovative medium-sized companies that are often global market leaders. Are we well-equipped for the transformation? Taking stock. - Germany’s innovation model has been remarkably
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Publications // 23.11.2023
using unique survey data for German innovating firms on the role of (foreign) customers and competitors as sources of ideas and impetus for innovation. Export intensive firms frequently benefit simultaneously [...] competitors. Firms’ underlying innovation strategy appears as an important moderator of the propensity to learn and of the relationship between learning and innovativeness. Firms adopting a strategy of [...] effective learning from diverse foreign customers and this learning is strongly associated with innovative sales – but mostly so if combined with domestic customer learning. In contrast, firms that