Wolfgang Tiefensee, Bundesminister für Verkehr, Bau und Stadtentwicklung, und Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für die neuen Länder, stellt die Forschungsinfrastruktur, die gemeinsam von den ostdeutschen Bundesländern und der Bundesregierung seit der deutschen Vereinigung aufgebaut wurde, vor.

Statement von Klaus Regling, Generaldirektor ECFIN, Europäische Kommission, zur Podiumsdiskussion zum Thema "Umbruch der Weltwirtschaft: Welche Chancen hat der Innovations- und Produktionsstandort Deutschland?" auf der 58. Jahresversammlung des ifo Instituts am 25. Juni 2007.

This book describes and evaluates how institutional innovation and technological innovation have impacted on humanity from pre-historical times to modern times, and how societies have been transformed in history. The author interrogates the relationship between innovation and civilisation --...

This paper sheds light on key innovation patterns and constraints within a selected set of developing East Asian countries (Cambodia, China, Indonesia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam). It follows a comprehensive approach about...

This paper offers the first evidence on the prevalence of a central actor in modern growth theory?the engineer. Using newly collected sub-national, and international data as well as historical case studies, it then argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of...

The idea behind patent policies is to increase the output of commercially useful innovations by creating a transitory propertyy right that allows the inventor to appropriate part of the returns from his invention. In developing countries, two types of considerations need to be addressed. First,...