examines the development and the impact of publicly funded R&D consortia in Germany. The paper describes the history of R …&D funding in Germany with a focus on the development of measures encouraging collaborative R&D activities among firms and public …

large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment … in Germany increased (unlike in the U.S. and Britain, where it fell). British and German evidence is further backed up … with alternative data sets for these countries. I find evidence for the Krugman hypothesis when Germany is compared to the …

biotech industry in Germany. We assume that R&D policy was driven blind by the idea to catch up with world?s biotech leaders … and analyse if Germany?s R&D policy lost its origins. We do examine, if Germany sacrifice economic funding principles, in …

We analyze the effectiveness of publicly financed training and retraining programs in east Germany as measured by their …

Großbritannien und Deutschland beitragen soll. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, daß sowohl in Großbritannien als auch in Deutschland die …

European Union. Regression results are provided for Western Germany, France, and Italy. It is shown that labour mobility is … highest in Germany, followed by France, and Italy. However, even in Germany, the accommodation of a shock to unemployment by …