Die Position Sachsens als Innovationsstandort wird anhand der Ausstattung des Freistaatsmit Ressourcen für Forschungs-, Entwicklungs- und Innovationsaktivitäten analysiert. Im innerdeutschen Vergleich rangiert Sachsen bei den Inputfaktoren für den Innovationsprozeß im Mittelfeld, steht aber...

In der Forschung und der technologischen Entwicklung fällt die Europäische Union immer weiter gegen ihre Hauptkonkurrenten USA und Japan zurück. Hauptgrund sind nach Angaben der Europäischen Kommission zu niedrige Forschungsaufwendungen der Unternehmen. Die zur Behebung dieses Defizits von...

Nowadays the Government of industrialised countries, in presence of reduced public funds, has to manage the public research laboratories to increase the efficiency and research performance, necessary to the competitiveness of firms and of economic systems. The purpose of this paper is to...

This paper estimates the process of diffusion and decay of knowledge from university, public laboratories and corporate patents in six countries and tests the differences across countries and across technological fields using data from the European Patent Office. It finds that university and...

We investigate evidence for spatially mediated knowledge transfer from university research. We examine whether firms locate their R&D labs in proximity to university research departments, and whether those that do are more likely to co-operate with, or source information from universities in the...

Universities and public research organisations play a vital role not only in the generation of new technological knowledge, but also in its diffusion. We analyse four East German local networks of innovators which differ in structure and innovative performance and investigate the characteristic...

'National Innovation Systems' theories are built upon the assumption that linkages among organisations matter to innovation. Specifically, proximity is a crucial factor in most of the explanations of regional innovation systems. Yet several thing, such as the rapid growth of the internet and...