The shift toward more open and interconnected innovation activities has been a major topic in recent academic and practitioner discussions. Firms must connect their in-house R&D activities with external partners, such as leading customers or universities, to increase the effectiveness of their...

The shift towards more open and interconnected innovation activities has been a major topic of recent academic and practitioner discussions. Firms have to connect their in-house R&D activities with external partners, such as leading customers or universities, to increase the effectiveness of...

The shift towards more open and interconnected innovation activities has been a major topic of recent academic and practitioner discussions. Firms have to connect their in-house R&D activities with external partners, such as leading customers or universities, to increase the effectiveness of...

In dieser Studie wird die technologische Leistungsfähigkeit Deutschlands im internationalen Vergleich untersucht. Sie zeigt, dass die deutsche Wirtschaft relativ stark auf die FuE-intensiven Industrien und wissensintensiven Dienstleistungen spezialisiert ist. Dies verdankt sie vor allem der...

Die Studie untersucht die Funktionsfähigkeit des deutschen Technologiemarktes und identifiziert Hemmnisse für den Technologiehandel. Für Patentübertragungen zeigt sich auf dem deutschen und europäischen Technologiemarkt seit Mitte der 2010er Jahre eine stark nachlassende Dynamik. Der...

Wage discrimination against women remains a major obstacle to fair economic opportunities for women and a grand challenge constraining economic growth in many countries. Existing research is ambivalent about whether foreign MNC subsidiaries as employers of women offer a solution to this grand...

Searching for externally available knowledge has been characterised as a vital part of the innovation process. Previous research has, however, almost exclusively focused on hightechnology environments, largely ignoring the substantial low- and medium-technology sectors of modern economies. We...