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  News // 21.04.2023

  #ZEWPodcast: Young, Vibrant, and Innovative

  and influences her research agenda. Among other things, she examines green start-ups “that offer products or services that directly contribute to protecting the environment, for example, conserving resources [...] Tetrapack packaging that looks like recycled paper doesn’t count, but “packaging that looks like a plastic bottle, for example, but is actually made from material that is self-decomposing when it is left
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  Press Releases // 08.02.2018

  Innovation Expenditure in the German Economy Reaches New Record High

  innovations increased in 2016. The “rate of innovators” – the share of businesses that have implemented product or process innovations – climbed from 35.2 per cent to 36.1 per cent. “This rise is solely due to [...] the industrial sector. In addition, the metal industry, the mechanical engineering sector and the plastics processing industry also increased their innovation budgets. In the electrical, chemical and ph
• Publications // 06.11.2013

  ZEW Discussion Paper - Estimating Dynamic R&D Demand: An Analysis of Costs and Long-Run Benefits

  been built around the knowledge production function. In this framework, investment in R&D creates a stock of knowledge within the firm that enters into the firm’s production function as an additional input [...] incorporates and quantifies linkages between the firm’s R&D investment, product and process innovations, and future productivity and profits. And it provides a natural measure of the long-run payoff to [...] million euros in the chemical industry to a low of about 350 thousand euros in the plastic, non-metallic mineral products, and manufacturing nec industries. By combining estimates of the expected long-run
• Publications // 20.08.2010

  ZEW Discussion Paper - Cost Pass-Through in Strategic Oligopoly: Sectoral Evidence for the EU ETS

  comprehensive as the data permits and covers industrial branches paper and pulp, chemicals, rubber and plastic and non-metallic minerals. Although strategic interactions of domestic energy-intensive sectors [...] sectors within the EU ETS. We find that high market power of domestic firms in relatively homogenous product markets leads to lower cost pass-through rates and to the more pronounced adjustment towards the [...] foreign producers' prices. The higher the market concentration of domestic firms in more heterogeneous product markets, the higher the cost pass-through potential and the lower strategic interactions with foreign
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  Press Releases // 11.06.2015

  1,500 Hidden Champions in Germany: Global Market Leaders' Secret of Success

  per cent in the electronics industry. Medical technology, metal product manufacturing, chemical industry, metal production and plastics processing each make up between five and six per cent of hidden champions [...] strong innovation orientation. "More than 80 per cent of hidden champions have either introduced product or process innovations in the past three years - ten per cent more than companies of a similar size
• Press Releases // 22.02.2010

  Innovation Survey 2009 for Germany: Innovation Expenditures Drop After Record High in 2008 – Investments in R&D Mostly Unaffected

  Firms Successful with Product and Process Innovations The increase in innovation expenditures in 2008 is reflected in an increasing number of firms which were successful with product and process innovations [...] were earned with newly introduced products. In 2007, this percentage was 16.3 percent. In the research-intensive sector, 38 percent of turnovers were made with new products (39 percent in 2007). Other industrial [...] especially in the export industry – particularly in mechanical engineering, wood and paper industry, rubber and polymer processing. A change in 2010 is not likely. It is possible that the innovation budget
• Press Releases // 04.04.2007

  German Innovation Survey 2006 – German Automobile Industry Spends the Most on Innovation

  186 billion euros by selling new products and thus kept outstripping all other branches. This sector represents 28 per cent of the overall sales gained through product innovations in German economy. In [...] of rationalisation thanks to process innovations. The metalworking industry, mining sector, rubber and plastics processing, banks, insurances and business services each managed to save more than four per [...] expenditure. At 56 per cent, it also recorded the highest proportion of revenues generated with product innovation whereas the mining sector brings up the rear with only two per cent. These are the findings
• Press Releases // 01.07.2004

  Ingenuity of Employees Guarantees the International Competitiveness of German Businesses

  generous levels of pay and short working hours in Germany are to be maintained, new and improved products must be constantly released onto the market. - It is in this context that the ingenuity of a company’s [...] implementation of such a system is particularly marked in vehicle manufacture, mechanical engineering, plastics processing, and the food industry and in optical and precision mechanics. The situation is quite
• Press Releases // 02.06.2004

  Vehicle Manufacture: 24 Billion Euros for Investments

  and widely implemented. The ever-shorter product life and price competition promotes continual further development of product ranges and stream-lining of production. This is the case for large manufacturers [...] differentiated and rejuvenated its product range. Car manufacturers continue to offer more and more, even technically complex extras, such as new electronic functionalities, plastics and regulation and control [...] sales revenue of 139 billion euros, which is expected to be gained through the sale of new products (product innovations, which have been brought onto the market within the last three years), the vehicle