The new evidence collected by WIFO through the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) shows that Austria's performance in the area of innovation is significantly better than could be suggested based on current statistics and the views brought forth in economic and technology policy debates. When it...

Frequencies have become a resource of relevance to the overall economy. Sectors whose services are based on the use of radio frequencies already produce a substantial share of the GDP (estimated at about 2 percent in the U.K.) and show more dynamic growth rates than the economy in general,...

Since the early 1980s employment figures of public telecommunications operators have been on a steady decline, shrinking by 8.5 percent between 1985 and 1995. Considering that reductions began early (in the early 1980s) and were particularly extensive in some countries with a low degree of...

The interaction between technical progress and employment has been analyzed in the theoretical and empirical economic literature at the micro, meso, and macro level. This paper deals only with the micro or firm level. Theoretical models of the influence of innovations on employment have yielded...

With technology gaining importance as a factor of competition instruments of technologigal policy have been further developed in nearly all industrialized economies. In the context of the ATMOS project WIFO analysed in some detail the relevant policies of Finland and the Netherlands since small...