Begriffe wie Informations-, Wissens-und Dienstleistungsgesellschaft prägen das Bild heutiger Volkswirtschaften. Der Dienstleistungssektor hat weltweit stark steigende Zuwachsraten und drängt den klassischen Industriesektor immer stärker in den Hintergrund, die zunehmende Auseinandersetzung...

Will an enterprise in the information age be able to afford to remain just an ordinary firm? Breathtaking progress in the fields of telecommunications and the ur-gency to concentrate on core competencies are revolutionising the company form of output production.(...) [Hans A. Wüthrich, Andreas...

This paper extends the standard Hotelling model with quadratic transport costs to the multi-firm case. Considering locational equilibria we show that neither holds the Principle of Maximum Differentiation - as in the duopoly model - nor does the Principle of Minimum Differentiation - as in the...

Die Förderung von Entrepreneurship und eines günstigen Umfelds für die Wirtschaft, insbesondere für Klein- und Mittelunternehmen, ist von entscheidender Bedeutung für das Wirtschaftswachstum, den Strukturwandel und die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit in der Europäischen Union.Die Europäische...

This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival forenterprises in Germany using unique tailor-made new representative data that mergeinformation from surveys performed by the Statistical Offices, from administrative datacollected by the Tax Authorities and from...

This paper examines the determinants of young innovative companies’ (YICs) R&D activitiestaking into account the autoregressive nature of innovation. Using a large longitudinal datasetcomprising Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 1990-2008, we find that previousR&D experience is a...

The UK’s business R&D (BERD) to GDP ratio is low compared to other leading economies,and the ratio has slowly declined over the 1990s. This paper uses data on large UK firms toanalyse the link between R&D and productivity over the 1989-2000 period. Using aproduction function approach, and a...