Whereas various drivers of the international innovative activity have been studied in the literature, our understanding of the contributions...

KBW 39: As part of their SME Report Thuringia, the authors note that Thuringia's gross domestic product has developed less favorably than GDP...

In order to better understand why some nations are more innovative than others, this paper considers the influence of socio-historic...

Underpinning China’s technological advancement are the twin-engines of exports and innovation. To better understand China’s meteoric economic...

Underpinning China’s technological advancement are the twin-engines of exports and innovation. To better understand China’s meteoric economic...

We provide empirical evidence that the experience of a socialist regime leads to a lack of self-reliance by comparing East and West Germans...

In tandem with the current climate talks in Glasgow (COP26), Aoife Hanley and her co-author Limin DU (Zheijiang University, China) draw ...

Based on information from a large sample of German researchers and using business ownership and nascent entrepreneurship as alternative...

SARS-Cov-2, das die potenziell tödliche Krankheit Covid-19 auslösende Virus, scheint umso gefährlichere Mutationen zu bilden, je weiter es...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 156: The funding measure „Internationalization of leading-edge clusters”, which IfW researchers have accompanied...

This article introduces a new econometric model that includes an innovative measure of intersectoral structural change. This model describes...

This paper introduces endogenous technological change in a Hotelling-Herfindahl model of natural resource use to study the recent...

This paper analyses how China’s investments in Germany have developed over time and the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in this...

Whereas technical standards and Standard Setting Organizations (SSOs) are omnipresent and essential to mass production and mass...

Whereas technical standards and Standard Setting Organizations (SSOs) are omnipresent and essential to mass production and communications,...

Taking robotic patents between 1977 and 2017 and building upon the topic modeling technique, we extract their latent topics, analyze how...

This paper examines whether corruption acts to “grease” or “sand” firms' exit. Corruption could facilitate exit when it is a tax that distorts...

KBW 27: According to the authors' definition, Schleswig-Holstein's "Maritime Economy" consists on the one hand of a core area that directly...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 122: In their paper, the authors warn of a new trend towards autarky under the catchword of "technology sovereignty",...