A regional innovation system is an analytical approach to better understand the innovation processes taking place inside a region. Since traditional approaches primarily focus on markets, agents and the process of price formation there is a significant disregard of the institutional framework including non-market public institutions and government agencies. Because of the complex interrelations between ...
Over the past two decades, research and development (R&D) activities in eastern Germany have increased substantially, albeit to a lesser extent than in western Germany. Furthermore, R&D in eastern Germany was primarily conducted by research in the government sector and less so by universities and businesses. In 2013, overall, R&D activities in eastern Germany reached 86 percent of the western German ...
Forschung und Entwicklung wurden in Ostdeutschland in den vergangenen zwei Jahrzehnten deutlich ausgeweitet. Die Expansion war aber etwas schwächer als in Westdeutschland und sie konzentrierte sich stark auf die staatlichen und staatlich geförderten Forschungseinrichtungen. Ostdeutsche Hochschulen und Unternehmen steigerten ihre Forschungs- und Entwicklungsaktivitäten dagegen relativ schwach. Insgesamt ...
Using the 2007 Mannheim innovation survey, we investigate whether family firms are more financially constrained than other firms and how this affects both innovation input as well as innovation outcomes such as market and firm novelties or process innovations. Based on the CDM framework, estimation of the recursive system of equations shows that family businesses are more likely to be constrained and ...
We analyze the role public support plays in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) R&D financing as well as these firms’ assessments of financing conditions in the context of other framework conditions for innovation. Using the sample of 2,708 German SMEs that participated in public R&D promotion programs during 2005–10, we identify four unique types of R&D financing. Firms are generally positive ...
Untersuchungen zu den Auswirkungen von Fusionen auf Firmen und Märkte stehen bereits seit langem im Brennpunkt wirtschaftspolitischen und akademischen Interesses. Aufgrund der engen Verknüpfung von Innovation, Wachstum und Konsumentenwohlfahrt ist für die Wettbewerbspolitik insbesondere die Frage nach dem Effekt auf das Innovationsverhalten der Firmen relevant.
We analyze the role of public support in the financing pattern of R&D in German SMEs and their assessment of financing conditions in the context of other framework conditions for innovation. In Germany, there is a diversity of overall well-funded technology-neutral and technology-specific programs providing grants to R&D and innovation projects. Different types of SMEs access public funding for R&D ...