Die Stadt Dresden ist schon seit den 1990er Jahren einer der wichtigsten Wachstumsmotoren für den Freistaat Sachsen. Die Dynamik der hier ansässigen Hochtechnologiefirmen hat Dresden zu einem bedeutenden Wirtschaftsstandort werden lassen. Die starke Spezialisierung des Verarbeitenden Gewerbes...

The patterns and mechanisms of job creation in business services are investigated in this article by considering the role of innovation, demand, wages and the composition of employment by professional groups. A model is developed and an empirical test is carried out with parallel analyses on a...

This paper assesses whether European firms' innovative performance is impacted by investments in training directly aimed at developing and/or introducing innovation, in addition to the scale of a firm's investments in innovation proxied by the number of R&D personnels. In particular, it explores...

This paper investigates the innovation impact of intangibles by considering the decision of firms to invest in a comprehensive set of them. By using a new survey on a large sample of firms in 28 EU (plus 8 non-EU) countries, we first identify the principal components of the resources firms...