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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

"Das Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung der Bundesagentur für Arbeit (IAB) führt seit 1996 jährlich eine Arbeitgeberbefragung in ostdeutschen Betrieben durch (IAB-Betriebspanel Ost). Ziel dieser Arbeitgeberbefragung ist es, aktuelle repräsentative Daten über die...

Consolidation measures will shape budgetary development until 2014. However, despite consolidation efforts reforming education and training policies as well as innovation policies is still possible and necessary. This is because these form the basis for sustainable growth. Increases in public...

Genetic resources are living organisms that contain genetic information which is of importance for biotechnological research and development. Facing an accelerated worldwide loss in species diversity, the question is whether commercial trade with genetic resources can generate sufficient...

"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...