Das Handwerk ist ein wichtiger Sektor der deutschen Volkswirtschaft. Die Erscheinungsformen handwerklicher Betriebe haben sich in den vergangenen Jahren aber entscheidend verändert. Während früher die mittleren Größenklassen dominierten, haben heute die Ränder an Bedeutung gewonnen. Dies...

Innovation is crucial to economic development. Innovation expenditures in Germany's business sector as well as public funding for science and research have been increasing in the past decade. However, the share of businesses with innovations - especially among the small- and medium-sized ones -...

This paper analyses the impact of intangible capital on firm-level productivity for Germany using panel data from the Community Innovation Survey for the time period 2006 to 2018. Our paper presents three novel results. First, we find a highly significant positive relationship between intangible...