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Internationalization of business research: New locations gaining ground

Belitz, Heike - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 2 (2012) 8, pp. 13-19

In recent years, German and foreign companies have consistently increased their investment in Research and Development in Germany. In 2009, investment was over 45 billion euros which was a third higher than in 2001. While foreign companies have significantly expanded their Research and...

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Greece needs a strategy for its transition to an innovation economy

Kritikos, Alexander S. - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 4 (2014) 10, pp. 3-10

, most of them however working abroad. The central problem is the lack of an innovation-oriented industry structure and of a … well-functioning innovation system connecting research output with the demand of entrepreneurs and high-tech start-ups in …-added, the country has the opportunity to transform into an innovation-driven economy. …

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Private R&D not necessarily drawn to areas with high public R&D

Eickelpasch, Alexander - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 6 (2016) 45, pp. 517-526

certain government initiatives, namely the Pact for Research and Innovation, the German Universities Excellence Initiative …

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Research and development in manufacturing: Companies performing better than ever

Eikelpasch, Alexander - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 5 (2015) 30/31, pp. 414-426

In 2008 and 2009, during the economic crisis, Germany's industrial enterprises invested considerably less in research and development (R&D). From 2010 to 2013, investments increased markedly again by an annual growth rate of 6.8 percent. This increase can be partly traced back to the process of...

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Growth through research and development

Belitz, Heike; Junker, Simon; Podstawski, Max; … - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 5 (2015) 35, pp. 455-465

DIW Berlin has examined the effects of investment in research and development on economic growth in Germany and other OECD countries. Their results show that an increase of one percentage point in research and development spending in the economy as a whole leads to a short-term average increase...

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Structural differences at the root of east-west gap in research, development, and innovation in Germany

Eickelpasch, Alexander - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 5 (2015) 41, pp. 541-552

Over the past two decades, research and development (R&D) activities in eastern Germany have increased substantially, albeit to a lesser extent than in western Germany. Furthermore, R&D in eastern Germany was primarily conducted by research in the government sector and less so by universities...

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Medium-sized foreign-owned German enterprises heavily involved in R&D

Belitz, Heike; Eickelpasch, Alexander - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 6 (2016) 22/23, pp. 263-273

In Germany, the share of private investment in research and development (R&D) by foreign-owned companies from the beginning of the millennium to 2011 remained virtually unchanged at around one-quarter. From 2011 to 2013, this share fell slightly, and for the first time since the mid-1990s also...

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Research-based companies perform better

Eickelpasch, Alexander - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 2 (2012) 10, pp. 3-14

The past ten years have seen an expansion in industrial research. There has been a significant increase in the number of research-based companies, as well as in employment in research and development, and in expenditure in this area. Growth has been observed predominantly in companies in less...

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Companies with R&D abroad make Germany a strong research location

Belitz, Heike - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 7 (2017) 46/47, pp. 477-487

In recent years, German companies have invested more in research and development (R&D) abroad. After a prolonged plateau period, the proportion of investment abroad rose to around 35 percent; concurrently R&D expenditure in Germany has continued to rise sharply. Growth abroad did not occur at...

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Growth and investment dynamics in Germany after the global financial crisis

Erber, Georg; Hagemann, Harald - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 3 (2013) 2, pp. 15-24

The German economy recovered more rapidly than the majority of other developed countries from the severe slump that the global economic and financial crisis brought in its wake. Weak demand in the euro area was offset by robust growth in exports to countries outside the region. The German...

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