explaining the relative East Germany-West Germany performance during the post-World War II era. We argue that previous work was … prospects of catching up with West Germany during the post-reunification era. We show, first, that the rates of technical change … account for the fact that East Germany was not the socialist showcase for which it was frequently taken before German …

but economically significant, accounting, for example, for 20% of the higher patenting in Germany's Greater Stuttgart area …