Die Dissertation umfasst vier Einzelbeiträge aus dem Bereich der Mittelstandsforschung. Der Autor zeigt hierbei auf, dass die übergreifenden Themenfelder Innovation und Konjunktur jeweils für sich genommen dazu geeignet sind, die möglichen Besonderheiten kleinerer Unternehmen zu untersuchen....

Recent studies estimate that the economic impact of U.S. patent litigation may be as large as $80 billion per year and that the overall rate of U.S. patent litigation has been growing rapidly over the past twenty years. And yet, the relationship of the macroeconomy to patent litigation rates has...

Despite tremendous growth in the volume of new scientific and technological knowledge, the popular press has recently raised concerns that disruptive innovative activity is slowing. These dire prognoses were mainly driven by \cite{park2023papers}, a \textit{Nature} publication that uses decades...