We analyze the effect of the Öresund Bridge, a combined railway and motorway bridge between Swedish Malmö and the Danish capital Copenhagen, on inventive activity in the region of Malmö. Applying difference-in-difference estimation on individual-level data, our findings suggest that the...

Die deutsche Wirtschaft hat die Ausgaben für Innovationen im Jahr 2021 deutlich um 4,7 Prozent auf 178,6 Milliarden Euro gesteigert. Damit wurde der Rückgang aus dem Jahr 2020 - damals sanken die Innovationsausgaben pandemiebedingt um 3,6 Prozent auf 170,5 Milliarden Euro - wettgemacht. Das...

The post-growth discourse emphasizes the role need to limit economic growth as a primary means to stop continuous environmental degradation associated with production induced overexploitation of natural resources. A criticism of the post-growth discourse is, however, that innovation is known to...

Innovation is regarded as a key driver of productivity and market growth and thus has a great potential for increasing wealth. Surveying innovation activities of firms is an important contribution to a better understanding of the process of innovation and how policy may intervene to maximise the...

Economic research emphasises the role of increasing returns to scale and critical mass in research and technology development. This suggests that countries benefit from specialising in certain technologies and can thereby bundle available resources. Using the example of the Exzellenzstrategie...

Das Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) erhebt seit 1993 jährlich die Innovationsaktivitäten der deutschen Wirtschaft. Die Erhebung findet im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) statt und wird in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Fraunhofer Institut...

Die Ausgaben der Wirtschaft für Innovationen sind im Jahr 2022 im Vergleich zum Vorjahr in Deutschland deutlich um 6,8 Prozent auf 190,7 Milliarden Euro angestiegen. Rückläufig sind allerdings andere zentrale Indikatoren für die Innovationskraft der Wirtschaft hier zu Lande - so zum Beispiel...

This paper investigates the relationship between innovation activities and market structure in German chemical industry. We present a formal model that suggests the existence of a self-enforcing dynamic feedback between market concentration and innovation. This model is tested on the basis of...

Nonparametric efficiency analysis has become a widely applied technique to support industrial benchmarking as well as a variety of incentive-based regulation policies. In practice such exercises are often plagued by incomplete knowledge about the correct specifications of inputs and outputs....