first comprehensive evidence on the relationship bet-ween productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading … more productive than firms that sell their products in Ger-many only, but less productive than firms that export to …

presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on …. Results for West Germany support the hypothesis that the productivity differential between exporters and non-exporters is at …

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2011, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socio … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …

environmental conditions that are absent in smaller cities or remote and rural areas. Germany provides a clear counterexample to … such theories. We argue that a main force behind the geography of innovation in Germany is the country's federal tradition …

Employing a quantitative, data-driven tool - the Triple Helix Indicator - to microdata of firms in Germany, we develop …, regional, national) might be most effective for strategic innovation policy-making based on smart specialization in Germany … Governmental Regions (NUTS2). In high-tech and medium-tech manufacturing, former East and West Germany, as well as North and South …

investigates and analyzes the pandemic's effect on new business formation, as well as business exits and insolvencies, in Germany …

. In this process, the poorly functioning socialist system of East Germany adopted the formal institutions and organization … of West Germany, a western-style market economy. We investigate the effect of this integration on patenting activity by …, the gap between East and West Germany widened considerably over time. This divergence in innovation activity suggests that …

Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our …