The crisis of 2008 affected in Switzerland primarily export-oriented and innovative firms with an unfavourable cost structure and low labour productivity, independently from firm size, firm age and ownership situation (domestic or foreign firm). This can be traced back to the specific character...

In this article the term knowledge and technology transfer broadly denotes any activities targeted at transferring knowledge and technology that may help a company or a research institution – depending on the direction of the transfer – to further promote its activities. We present here the...