In a long-term perspective, world trade expands much faster for high-technology manufactures than for goods with low technological content. Compared with other advanced industrialized countries, Austria exhibits a substantial "technological gap" in its foreign trade: 1. The share of...

The long duration of the current economic upswing has smoothed most regional economic imbalances. A tight labour market in the western part of Austria has helped laggards, such as Styria, to catch up; only Vienna is falling behind. The manufacturing sector, the engine of growth in the other...

Die österreichischen Industrieunternehmen wurden nach dem Kriterium der Ähnlichkeit ihrer Patentstrukturen zu Gruppen zusammengefaßt. Diese technologischen Cluster sind typischerweise jeweils nur mit einigen wenigen Unternehmen besetzt. Das Ausmaß potentiell nutzbarer externer Effekte...

Direct government aid and fiscal incentives for research and development each have distinctive advantages and disadvantages. An appropriate mix adjusted to prevailing conditions may increase the efficiency of the system of government aid. As a matter of fact, the majority of OECD countries...