In Bezug auf Bildung und Ausbildung werden in Deutschland durch die Bildungsberichte und auf europäischer Ebene mit der Europa 2020-Strategie der Europäischen Kommission und den Schwerpunktsetzungen des Europäischen Statistischen Programms 2013-2017 einige Anforderungen an das...

Sektorale Spezialisierung wird in Deutschland häufig als eine sinnvolle Option zur Stärkung regionalen Wachstums angesehen: Während viele Städte (z. B. Wolfsburg, Frankfurt am Main) bereits durch starke Konzentration gekennzeichnet sind, versuchen auch andere Regionen solche Zentren zu...

The information and communication technology (ICT) is a cross-section technology. ICT accelerate structural change and has a revitalizing effect especially in advanced economies. For Germany, it is therefore important not to leave behind on the fast growing ICT market and to produce a high...

This article uses representative firm-level data for the Austrian manufacturing sector in order to analyse interactions between firm dynamics, export status and turnover productivity.

Whether small businesses create more jobs than large enterprises is a question controversial in empirical economic research. Methodological literature shows that the method used to assign enterprises to size classes is of crucial importance and can lead to biased results. In a comparison of four...

"The paper analyses the specific contribution of competence within the context of industrial innovation processes, based essentially on findings from an empirical study carried out in large-scale enterprises of the pharmaceutical industry. According to the thesis, the organizational context of...

"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...

DIXON A. J. and SEDDIGHI H. R. (1996) An analysis of R & D activities in North East England manufacturing firms: the results of a sample survey, Reg. Studies 30, 287-294. A survey of over 400 firms was carried out to investigate the effect of a number of variables upon R & D activities within...

SUN Y. (2000) Spatial distribution of patents in China, Reg. Studies 34 , 441-454. It is found that patents in China are highly clustered in two groups of provinces: one is the economically fast growing coastal provinces; and the other is inland provinces with large bases of populations, while...