This paper presents a comparative analysis of innovation behaviour at the firm level across countries with different levels of technological development. The literature has argued mostly from a macroeconomic perspective (e.g. Silverberg and Verspagen 1995, Acemoglu – Aghion – Zillibotti...

The Austrian business R&D intensity has experienced a very rapid rise over the past decade. We compare this development to trends in other countries in the OECD area by using a structural decomposition method that allows splitting business R&D intensity into a structural component reflecting the...

Scientific staff in tertiary education tend to be highly mobile. Across the European Union, some 56 percent of respondents in a survey of 2009 had changed jobs across borders for more than three months at least once in the course of their career. In Austria the respective figure was 51 percent.

This article develops a simple decomposition of Business R&D Expenditures (BERD) panel data and applies it to analyse the development of R&D intensities in the business sector in the EU 27 countries and important non-EU countries over time. The results show that changes in aggregate BERD figures...

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...

Austrian salaries of scientists working at universities, adjusted for purchasing power, are, depending on the career level, between 65 percent and 80 percent of those in the country with the highest salaries of a particular career level. Seen internationally, Austria thus pays above-average...

This paper presents an analysis of innovation behaviour at the firm level across countries with different levels of technological capabilities and economic development. Using data from the Community Innovation Survey for 20 European countries the paper shows that the impact of total innovation...

The paper presents a cross-country comparison of business R&D over time. For this purpose we use a dynamic structural decomposition procedure that is able to discriminate between effects that are due to changes in the national industry structure and impacts caused by changes in R&D intensities...

The economic crisis has had a negative effect on the state of the public budgets. Consolidation measures and the slow recovery of the economy will continue to influence the budget until 2014. However, an increase in public spending on innovation and education is possible in principle, despite...

The analysis of the relationship between internationalisation and innovation of European firms using CIS micro data for 21 countries shows that these two aspects are interdependent. Innovation activities are positively related to export activities, and exports stimulate further innovation. The...