In Deutschland gibt es spürbare Innovationsdefizite beim Mittelstand im Vergleich zu Großunternehmen. Das System der staatlichen Forschungsförderung leistet nur begrenzt Abhilfe, auch aufgrund seiner technologischen Selektivität und unnötigen Bürokratie. Wie die vorliegende Analyse zeigt,...

Neue wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse und gut ausgebildete Fachkräfte gewinnen für die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung immer stärker an Bedeutung. Für die Unternehmen wird die Zusammenarbeit mit Hochschulen und Studierenden deshalb zukünftig noch wichtiger. Auf vier Handlungsfeldern bieten die...

This article deals with the innovation system in Germany at the borderline of food, nutrition and health. After an overview over existing concepts to analyse innovations in system theory, the major factors (technologies, economic competence, institutional infrastructure, development block) are...

The AGMEMOD Partnership seeks to capture the inherent existing heterogeneity of agricultural systems by linking together individual EU Member State models, an aggregated EU model and several accession countries into one single model, while still maintaining analytical consistency. Although this...

A number of economic models have been applied to analyse the Common Agricultural Policy. The partial equilibrium models CAPRI, ESIM, AGLINK, AGMEMOD and CAPSIM and the general equilibrium models GLOBE and GTAP are currently integrated in a modelling platform for Agro-Economic Policy Analysis in...

This paper investigates the causal effect of funding research and development (R&D) cooperation with public universities on the performance of firms. We use comprehensive firm-level panel data from Switzerland that spans from 2010 to 2022 and covers a broad set of variables including the...

In this paper, the reaction of firms to the introduction of environmental charges in a given industry is analysed. Firms may decide either to relocate their plants abroad or to adopt a new environmental-friendly technology. The latter can be either developed by investing in R&D or obtained by...