Entry into an industry often clusters in regions where the industry is already concentrated, which is suggestive of agglomeration economies. Regional public research activities may exert another attracting force on entrants into science-based industries. Empirically these proximity effects are...

Using a new dataset encompassing more than 2,200 inventions made by Max Planck Society researchers from 1980 to 2004, we explore how licensee and technology characteristics affect the licensing and commercialization of technologies from public research. We find no evidence that spin-offs and...

The quadratic scoring rule (QSR) is often used to guarantee an incentive compatibleelicitation of subjective probabilities over events. Experimentalists haveregularly not been able to ensure that subjects fully comprehend the consequencesof their actions on payoffs given the rules of the games....

In two-person generosity games the proposer's agreement payoffis exogenously given whereas that of the responder is endogenouslydetermined by the proposer's choice of the pie size. Earlier resultsfor two-person generosity games show that participants seem to caremore for eciency than for equity....

We experimentally test the effect of enforceable non-compete clauses on working efforts. The employee can invest into the probability of making a profitable innovation. After a successful innovation (Win) the employee may want to leave the firm (Shift) whereas after an innovation failure (Lose)...

We experimentally test the effect of enforceable non-compete clauses on working efforts. The employee can invest into the probability of making a profitable innovation. After a successful innovation (Win) the employee may want to leave the firm (Shift) whereas after an innovation failure (Lose)...

Anita Dietrich, Florian Dorn, Clemens Fuest, ifo Institut, Daniel Gros, Giorgio Presidente und Philipp-Leo Mengel, Bocconi Universität, Mailand, vergleichen die EU-Innovationspolitik mit der in den USA. Investitionen in FuE in der EU und in Deutschland konzentrieren sich auf Sektoren, die als...

The transformation of economy and society requires far-reaching technological and social innovations. To utilise the economic opportunities of transformation and to mitigate the negative effects of structural change, a determined transformation-oriented R&I policy is needed. Using the example of...

Untersucht wurden räumliche Implikationen der zunehmenden Drittmittelorientierung in der Deutschen Wissenschaftspolitik seit Ende der 1990er Jahre. Die empirischen Ergebnisse legen nahe, dass jenseits der Faktoren, die den Förderumfang aus den unmittelbaren Förderzielen der Drittmittelgeber...