Wie können Wissenschaftsbehörden, die in den hierarchischen Staatsaufbau integriert sind, nach außen glaubwürdig darstellen, dass sie trotz ihrer Nähe zur Politik neutral bleiben und ihre Beratungsaufgabe allein nach wissenschaftlichen Kriterien erledigen? Im Fall der...

Die Innovationsfähigkeit moderner Gesellschaften hängt an der Wissenschaft, lautet die verbreitete Annahme. Entsprechend hoch sind die politischen und gesellschaftlichen Erwartungen. Doch folgt Wissenschaft oft eigenen Regeln und Handlungslogiken. Von großem Interesse sind für die...

We consider the development of German federal research and technology (R&T) policies since the 1960s and sketch the evolution of today's highly differentiated and complex set of policy instruments. Advances from economic theory and empirical results are reflected in this evolution, but have not...

This paper aims to evaluate the impact of federal public procurement on business R&D efforts in the 2013-2016 period regardless of the participation in any public procurement program (PPI). We conducted a quasi-experiment (with propensity score matching) in which we compared firms that sold to...

Green public procurement has gained high political priority and is argued to be an effective demand-side policy to trigger environmental innovations. Its implementation usually takes the form of environmental award selection criteria in public procurement tenders. However, there is no direct or...

Economics and innovation scholars have long recognized the potential of public procurement to trigger innovation. To what extent has this potential been realized so far? What can be done to improve the performance of PPI in this regard? This paper addresses these issues by providing a literature...

This paper deals with flows of technology and information among people and institutions and the role of public support given by different sponsors (the federal government, the Länder and the European Union). Recent theory stresses the importance of the interactions and linkages among acteurs...

In the following paragraphs we will discuss the 'mapping of innovative clusters in national innovation systems'. For this we have used a data set of almost 3.000 firms that participated in the first and fifth survey of the Mannheimer Innovation Survey (which is comparable with CIS data). The...