This paper deals with the effects of publicly funded research on regional technological progress and economic growth … further extend the existing empirical literature on the role of publicly funded research for economic development by … differentiating between public research activities conducted by universities, technical colleges (Fachhochschulen) and non …

A quarter-century after reunification, labor productivity in eastern Germany continues to lag systematically behind the … West. Denison-Hall-Jones point-in-time estimates point to large gaps in total factor productivity as the proximate cause …

In the paper, productivity convergence is analyzed with a broad panel of industry sector data for the United States and … had a significant effect on German sectoral productivity growth in the sixties and seventies. Some part of the catching …-up is due to capital-deepening, but most of it is total factor productivity convergence, i.e. endogenous growth models …

Research and development (R&D) expenditure in Germany decreased by 5.3 percent overall in 2020 compared to 2019. While … sector, suffered particularly. The decline in R&D personnel, however, was lower. Even before 2020, German industrial research … knowledge gained internationally, for example through their own research units abroad or through international research …

technologies. We show that Germany neither increased its investment into research and education, nor did it embrace ICT technology …. Germany lost its position as the European leader in research expenditures relative to GDP. For a set of 16 growth drivers, the … dynamics of investment into research, education and information technology during the nineties were the slowest of all EU …