The Austrian business R&D intensity has experienced a very rapid rise over the past decade. We compare this development to trends in other countries in the OECD area by using a structural decomposition method that allows splitting business R&D intensity into a structural component reflecting the...

Scientific staff in tertiary education tend to be highly mobile. Across the European Union, some 56 percent of respondents in a survey of 2009 had changed jobs across borders for more than three months at least once in the course of their career. In Austria the respective figure was 51 percent.

Consolidation measures will shape budgetary development until 2014. However, despite consolidation efforts reforming education and training policies as well as innovation policies is still possible and necessary. This is because these form the basis for sustainable growth. Increases in public...

Austrian salaries of scientists working at universities, adjusted for purchasing power, are, depending on the career level, between 65 percent and 80 percent of those in the country with the highest salaries of a particular career level. Seen internationally, Austria thus pays above-average...

The paper presents a cross-country comparison of business R&D over time. For this purpose we use a dynamic structural decomposition procedure that is able to discriminate between effects that are due to changes in the national industry structure and impacts caused by changes in R&D intensities...

The analysis of the relationship between internationalisation and innovation of European firms using CIS micro data for 21 countries shows that these two aspects are interdependent. Innovation activities are positively related to export activities, and exports stimulate further innovation. The...

This paper provides new evidence for the determinants of long-term economic growth in OECD countries. In particular, we investigated the role of specialised R&D activities (i.e., R&D investment in the high-tech sector), human resources, R&D expenditure by business as a percentage of GDP,...

An investigation of the determinants of innovation activities by the Austrian construction industry delivers heterogeneous results, indicating that the determinants in the construction industry deviate from those found for manufacturing and services. Innovation determinants also vary...

As a basis for the evaluation of the Austrian system of research promotion the development of innovation in Austria, the related structural change as well as the framework conditions which affect the incentives and input factors for innovation, were assessed and compared internationally....

Survey results on financing constraints among Austrian technology-based young firms suggest that about half of the surveyed companies actually face such constraints with often adverse consequences for the innovation process.