This paper analyses the determinants of spatial distribution of foreign technological activity across 96 German regions (1996-2009). We identify foreign inventive activity by applying the ‘cross-border-ownership concept’ to transnational patent applications. The descriptive analysis shows...

Thema des Buches ist die Geschichte des Innovationssystems in Deutschland seit Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts. Die Autoren stellen die Entwicklung der Wissenschaftsausgaben in diesem Zeitraum zusammen und rekonstruieren daraus den Anteil für Forschung und Entwicklung. Anhand von Publikations- und...

Empirical and theoretical contributions provide strong evidence that firm-level performance outcomes in terms of innovativeness can either be determined by the firm’s position in the social space (network effects) or by the firm’s position in the geographical space (co-location effects)....

The aim of this paper is to analyze the technological activities of Central and Eastern European (CEE) economies and to compare them with the technological activities of other world regions. Using data from the EPO World Wide Statistical Database for the period 1980-2009 the analysis is based on...