The knowledge-based economy/society challenges and changes organisations, institutions and job contents generated by new requirements and the increasingly complex and dynamic environment in which they are compelled to act. Institutions and organisations, public or private, need to adjust rapidly...

This paper studies the effects of public research (publications) and innovation output (patents) on national economic growth with the help of a GMM panel regression including 114 countries. Effects on productivity growth and capital and labor inputs are distinguished. Furthermore, different time...

This paper examines regional effects of the InnoRegio program, which was conducted by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The InnoRegio program has been a new tool of innovation policy with the aim to improve innovativeness in East Germany on the basis of prosperous regional...