The study serves as a background document for the European Commission and is conducted in close cooperation with the ZEW Mannheim. The main tasks are to define the concept of competitiveness at the micro, meso, and macro levels of economic activity, to establish a set of indicators that is...

Das Eich- und Vermessungswesen stellt die grundlegende messtechnische Infrastruktur und verlässliche Geoinformationen bereit. Es erbringt komplexe, für das Funktionieren einer Volkswirtschaft wesentliche Dienstleistungen, die die Öffentlichkeit umso weniger wahrnimmt, je zuverlässiger sie...

The services sector not only is the largest and most important sector in developed economies, but in producing intermediate inputs for many sectors it influences the productivity, competitiveness and performance of large parts of the economy. Trade liberalisation and deregulation in the service...