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  • Press Releases // 16.12.2024

    represented on the board: The cooperation with some of the most important companies based in the region is a great asset for our network.” The ZEW Sponsors’ Association supports practice-relevant research [...] as well as private individuals among its members, who, through their commitment, support a strong economic research institute in Baden-Württemberg. For further information, please visit the ZEW Sponsors’

  • Projects // 01.12.2024

    The majority of businesses in Germany are family businesses. The economic significance of family businesses and their special features compared to other businesses have been examined in recent years [...] Business Foundation analysed, among other things, the structural characteristics of family businesses (regional distribution, sector, size, legal form distribution) as well as their share of employment and turnover

  • Publications // 20.11.2024

    determinant of the pronounced changes in economic prosperity across German regions over the last 100 years. Using novel data on economic activity in 163 labor market regions in West Germany, we find that nearly [...] as it turned from an asset to economic development into a liability. We present evidence consistent with the view that early industrialization created a lopsided economic structure dominated by large firms [...] ation explains most of the decline in regional inequality observed in Germany in the 1960s and 1970s and more than half of the current North-South gap in economic development.

  • Press Releases // 07.11.2024

    efficient level. A government launching an infrastructure investment programme which also involves private capital and facing the challenges of Europe’s economic resilience and security together with the [...] facing the country. The government set out to reconcile the transition to climate neutrality with economic growth and social policy in Europe – to achieve a socio-ecological market economy. It has not lived [...] compounded by geoeconomic tensions: the wars in Europe and the Middle East as well as the adverse economic effects of tariffs and national subsidy policies. The election of Donald Trump has exacerbated the

  • Publications // 28.10.2024

    micro-data on the universe of new venture formations in Germany between 2011 and 2018, we illustrate regional determinants of digital entrepreneurship. Unlike conventional entrepreneurship, digital entrepreneurship [...] choices. The key insight of our study is that digital entrepreneurship requires both digital infrastructure and highly-skilled human capital. If both are present, digital entrepreneurship can flourish

  • Publications // 23.10.2024

    event study analyses comparing ICU capacity before and after regions became eligible. We find no evidence of strategic reporting at an economically meaningful and hence empirically detectable scale.

  • Publications // 18.09.2024

    least quantitatively, a more intensive embedding in entrepreneurial ecosystems, while infrastructural and socio-economic location factors hardly play a role.

  • News // 27.08.2024

    of companies and regions. In particular, innovation is key to ensuring good working conditions and outcomes during the digital transformation. But how do work, innovation and regional differences interact [...] on innovation and transformation,” says Hanna Hottenrott, professor of economics of innovation at TUM and head of ZEW’s “Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics” Unit. She is leading the project

  • Projects // 01.04.2024

    challenges regarding the relationship between innovation dynamics, work and regional change using company data and selected sample regions in Germany. It aims to provide important impulses for understanding the [...] between innovation and work environment  is increasingly determining the success of companies and regions. Innovation, especially in the area of digital transformation, is a key factor for satisfying working [...] working conditions and results, social participation and finally the development of entire regions. At the same time, more and more work processes in companies are being geared towards innovation, with the

  • News // 17.07.2024

    effective, it is desirable to concentrate funds on regions in need where a significant impact can be expected. This applies in particular to regions in less developed EU Member States that have efficient [...] The EU Cohesion Policy is an important element of European solidarity. Its purpose is to offset economic and social differences within the EU by means of targeted investments. However, this multi-billion [...] handover of the final report. “In fact, despite 30 years of Cohesion Policy in Southern Europe, regional disparities in the EU have hardly diminished. Of course, the differences could be even greater in

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