Previous research has expressed concerns about firms engaging less in basic research. We contribute to this debate by … studying trends in the scientific publishing activities of firms located in Germany. Our results do not confirm a declining …-intensive industries. Beyond that, we observe positive trends in publishing in basic research journals compared to journals focused on …

services. About 8 percent of total employment in West Germany is in business services. In particular, by taking advantage of …

policy-decisions? In the case of governmental research agencies (GRAs) in Germany, this does not seem to pose a major problem …How can research agencies which are integrated into the hierarchical state apparatus provide credible expertise for …

Handlungslogiken. Von großem Interesse sind für die Wissenschafts-forschung daher die mikro- und mesostrukturellen … analyses of the research group "Science-Policy Studies" are particularly geared towards the micro-structures of institutional …

innovation systems, highlight the outline conditions for innovations in Germany, focusing above all on the basis of innovations … information flows and cooperation patterns within the innovation system of Germany. In the summary at the end of this paper we …

We consider the development of German federal research and technology (R&T) policies since the 1960s and sketch the …