Die deutsche Wasserwirtschaft ist gekennzeichnet durch viele kleine und mittlere Unternehmen sowie durch vorwiegend kommunale Betreiber. Bereits seit einigen Jahren bestehen Netzwerke, die es der deutschen Wasserbranche ermöglichen sollen, ihre Exportaktivitäten zu verbessern. Den deutschen...

This paper deals with the question of changing relations between business R&D (BERD), patents and output measures like value added and productivity (macro level) as well as EBIT and market capitalization (micro level) to analyze long-term/secular effects of technological change at different...

Within this study we provide descriptive as well as multivariate evidence on the effects of the German Excellence Initiative on universities. Thereby, we will focus on the question whether the Excellence Initiative has led to a sharpening of the participating universities' scientific profiles in...