The past ten years have seen an expansion in industrial research. There has been a significant increase in the number of research-based companies, as well as in employment in research and development, and in expenditure in this area. Growth has been observed predominantly in companies in less...

The past ten years have seen an expansion in industrial research. There has been a significant increase in the number of research-based companies, as well as in employment in research and development, and in expenditure in this area. Growth has been observed predominantly in companies in less...

This paper investigates to what extent the R&D behavior of manufacturing companies was influenced by the 2008/09 crisis. Based on a broad official data set for German manufacturing companies, only a few companies that engaged in R&D during 2008 gave it up in the following year. Some companies...

The bulk of Germany's research and development (R&D) activity is concentrated in densely populated areas, urban regions that account for 62 percent of the country's R&D workforce. The regions surrounding Stuttgart, Munich, and Braunschweig have by far the highest R&D intensity-that is, the share...

Forschung und Entwicklung (FuE) sind in Deutschland auf die Verdichtungsräume konzentriert, 62 Prozent des FuE-Personals sind dort tätig. Bei der FuE-Intensität - also dem Anteil der FuE-Beschäftigten an allen Erwerbstätigen - führen mit großem Abstand die Regionen Stuttgart, München und...

Innovation potential is not only an elementary precondition for economic efficiency and affluence for nations, but also for regions. Measured on R&D employment in the manufacturing industry, regional concentration has continued to remain high since 1998. The regions of Munich and Stuttgart lead...

In Germany, two statistics examine the development and structure of public funding for research and development (R&D) in the private sector of the economy: the R&D statistics of the so-called "Stifterverband für die deutsche Wissenschaft - SV", a joint initiative of German industries to promote...

Die Innovationskraft ist nicht nur für Nationen, sondern auch für Regionen eine elementare Voraussetzung für wirtschaftliche Leistungsfähigkeit und Wohlstand. Gemessen an der FuE-Beschäftigung im verarbeitenden Gewerbe ist die regionale Konzentration seit 1998 unverändert hoch. Mit großem...

In Deutschland informieren zwei Statistiken über die Entwicklung und die Struktur von staatlichen Fördermitteln für Forschung und Entwicklung (FuE) in der Wirtschaft: die FuE-Statistik des Stifterverbandes für die Deutsche Wissenschaft sowie die Statistik des Bundesministeriums für Bildung...

Over the past two decades, research and development (R&D) activities in eastern Germany have increased substantially, albeit to a lesser extent than in western Germany. Furthermore, R&D in eastern Germany was primarily conducted by research in the government sector and less so by universities...