This project is part of a broader activity to prepare a compendium of evidence on the effectiveness of innovation policy intervention funded by NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) and coordinated by the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research. ZEW contributes...

Recent empirical evidence has shown that firm’s innovation behavior exhibits high persistency but not much is known about potential contingencies affecting the degree of persistence. This paper focuses on the role of the local knowledge environment and asks how local knowledge spillovers...

Die Bundesregierung hat sich immer wieder dazu bekannt, eine steuerliche Förderung von Forschung und Entwicklung (FuE) in Unternehmen in Deutschland einzuführen. Ende Februar 2019 hat das Bundesfinanzministerium erstmals konkrete Vorschläge veröffentlicht. Das ZEW-Leibniz-Zentrum für...