Collaboration over distance is difficult to maintain in innovation projects which require a great deal of regional collaboration. However, patent documents reveal that a number of inventor teams are able to overcome long distances. Earlier literature started to investigate factors, which...

Die Nutzung des in öffentlichen Forschungseinrichtungen vorhandenen Wissens kann für Innovationsprozesse privater Unternehmen von wesentlicher Bedeutung sein. Kooperationsbeziehungen zwischen Unternehmen und Forschungseinrichtungen stellen ein wesentliches Medium zum Transfer dieses Wissens...

This paper proposes a new framework for studying the effects of monetary policy on business investment. Important ambiguities with the modeling of investment dynamics and interactions between real and financial decisions suggest modeling investment spending as a VAR. Based on a panel of...