intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I …

Department for Human Capital and Innovation. It was completed in June 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of …, while one is concerned with determinants of investment in ICT networks. The study uses German firm-level data and regional …

independent from each other: the economics of ageing and the economics of innovation. The first three chapters cover the impact of …