This volume was prepared by Sebastian Benz while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different...

This study was prepared by Stefan Lachenmaier while he was working with the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in March 2007 and was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich (LMU). The subject of this study is an econometric...

In der vorliegenden Studie werden die Erfolgsfaktoren von regionalen Innovationsprozessen dargelegt, indem sie die räumlichen Aspekte des Innovationsprozesses ins Auge nimmt. Sie fragt speziell nach den Voraussetzungen der sächsischen Ballungszentren für die Herausbildung neuer Kerne...