Artificial Intelligence (AI) is widely regarded as a technology which will impact the future competitiveness of the Germaneconomy. Looking at the research productivity of German scientists and universities in AI, we find that Germany definitively belongs tothe top performers in AI research...

Research and development (R&D) expenditure in Germany decreased by 5.3 percent overall in 2020 compared to 2019. While the OECD countries actually slightly increased their R&D expenditure on average for the first time in a crisis-ridden year, it declined more sharply in Germany compared to the...

Vor 25 Jahren trat die Währungs-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialunion zwischen der Bundesrepublik und der damaligen DDR in Kraft. Direkt nach der Wende 1990 hatte Ostdeutschland ökonomisch rasch aufgeholt. Unterschiede in der Wirtschaftskraft zwischen Ost und West bleiben jedoch bis heute bestehen,...

The research on diversity and diversity management in German organisations has significantly gained relevance over the last years. The reasons for this are socio-political and economic changes that make diversity a highly relevant topic. In higher education, there is currently much discussion on...

After childbirth, women often interrupt their careers. These interruptions are associated with negative consequences for later employment, which are greatly influenced by the duration of the interruption. We analyse the influence of occupational characteristics on this duration, as occupations...