representative data for Germany – for many observers the exemplar of a cooperative industrial relations regime – to investigate the …

-level surveys from Germany (IAB establishment data) and Italy (INAPP-RIL establishment data). Our findings point to significant …

conducted in a regional innovation system (RIS) in East Germany. We investigate four innovation intermediaries in the region of …

. In this process, the poorly functioning socialist system of East Germany adopted the formal institutions and organization … of West Germany, a western-style market economy. We investigate the effect of this integration on patenting activity by …, the gap between East and West Germany widened considerably over time. This divergence in innovation activity suggests that …