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...

Die erste Hälfte des „Jahres der Innovation“ ist vorbei. Die von Politik, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und Gewerkschaft vorgeschlagenen Maßnahmen zur Erhöhung der Innovationskraft Deutschlands stecken noch weitgehend in der Explorationsphase. Ob die von Experten diagnostizierten strukturellen...

"Flexibility and heterogeneity are important topics in labour market research. Since 2004 the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has funded a research network addressing the issue of 'Flexibility in Heterogeneous Labour Markets', which intends to uncover possibilities for fostering...

"Adopting a dynamic perspective, this paper investigates age-related staffing patterns in German establishments and their effect on innovative performance. First, we investigate how establishments achieve the necessary workforce rejuvenation - from the inflow of younger or from outflows of older...

"Adopting a dynamic perspective, this paper investigates age-related staffing patterns in German establishments and their effect on innovative performance. First, we investigate how establishments achieve the necessary workforce rejuvenation - from the inflow of younger or from outflows of older...

"Flexibility and heterogeneity are important topics in labour market research. Since 2004 the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has funded a research network addressing the issue of 'Flexibility in Heterogeneous Labour Markets', which intends to uncover possibilities for fostering...

"Education is the 'raw material' of the knowledge-based society which is at the centre of the new neo-classical growth theory, and most of all at the heart of the evolutionary growth theory, as the innovation capabilities of economies depend on human capital. According to the more recent...

"The paper explores employment effects of environmental product innovations at the firm level. The empirical analysis is based on the establishment panel of the Institute for Employment Research (Nuremberg). A descriptive analysis shows that more than 50% of the firms in the environmental sector...

"Recent theoretical research deals with economic costs and benefits of cultural diversity related to immigration. However, empirical evidence regarding the impact of cultural diversity on economic performance is still scarce. This paper investigates the significance of cultural diversity of the...