used to observe their impact on the decision to locate innovation activities in various countries and regions (China … clubs). The analysis is based on the Mannheim Innovation Panel survey which represents the German CIS (Community Innovation …, international experience and existing technological competences of the respective firm. Innovation barriers at the German home base …

German multinationals’ direct investments abroad and of foreign multinationals’ investments in Germany from 1996 till 2008. A … corresponds to that of Germany. The impact of taxation on investments is negative. A ten percentage points higher corporate tax …

of two distinct national reforms in Germany - the phase-out of nuclear power plants after the Fukushima incident and the … support schemes caused a price decrease of up to 0.17 percent for each percent of additional generation from German renewables …

explorative study has been carried out in China with interviews of German firms with innovation activities in China and with a … analysis rests on the German data from the Europe-wide Community Innovation Survey (CIS). We use a unique data set of about 900 … legal advisor for small and medium sized German enterprises. The results show that firms with international R&D activities …

country knowledge. We use a broad sample of roughly 1,000 firms in Germany to empirically test the existence of liabilities of …

randomly assign Turkish or German first names to a set of essays so that some teachers believe a given essay was written by a … German native pupil, whereas others believe it was written by a pupil of Turkish origin. We find that essays obtain …

Less than half of the people with migration background living in Germany possess foreign citizenship. Hence, using … use of citizenship, estimates are presented in comparison to foreigner and German citizens. The results show that persons … not differ much from those of German citizenship. Therefore, using citizenship to approximate natives and non- natives …

Less than half of the people with migration background living in Germany possess foreign citizenship. Hence, using … use of citizenship, estimates are presented in comparison to foreigner and German citizens. The results show that persons … not differ much from those of German citizenship. Therefore, using citizenship to approximate natives and non- natives …

innovative technology within this trajectory. As for the diffusion of SC, the paper concentrates on Germany, USA, China and Japan … Germany in terms of regulation. In the near future, demand advantages will switch to China. This supports also the hypothesis …

concerning more efficient fossil fuel combustion and explores the potentials for lead markets for these technologies in China …, Germany, Japan and the USA taking into account the different regulation schemes in these countries. We concentrate on … in terms of supply factors, China in terms of price, demand and regulation advantage. This supports the hypothesis that …