21. März 2025 – Das Ende der Ampelkoalition hat auch dafür gesorgt, dass das eigentlich geplante Forschungsdatengesetz vorerst auf Eis liegt. Es ist von zentraler Bedeutung, um den Zugang zu Forschungsdaten zu verbessern, wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse zu fördern und eine evidenzbasierte Politikgestaltung zu ermöglichen. Internationale Erfahrungen zeigen, dass eine bessere Datenverfügbarkeit die...
How do firms respond to greener household preferences? We construct a novel index of environmental willingness to act on the state-quarter level based on Google Trends search data. Relating the index to firm-level information on the U.S. auto- motive sector from 2006 to 2019, we find ambiguous results. On average, firms innovate more in electric, hydrogen, and hybrid (clean) technologies and reduce ...
Research into nuclear fusion for military purposes has been regularly conducted since the 1940s. However, the idea of being able to use nuclear power for power generation within mere decades has not come to fruition. While some successes have been highlighted by the media, such as the experiments at the National Ignition Facility in California at the end of 2022, the main problems remain as challenging ...