This volume was prepared by Sebastian Benz while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different...

This book provides a comprehensive picture of the location of technological innovation of multinational corporations in the European Union. The increasingly global research strategies of the world's largest firms are analyzed at a detailed regional level across the major EU countries. This...

This volume was prepared by Sebastian Benz while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different...

In dieser Studie werden die Zusammenhänge zwischen der Innovationsdynamik, den technologischen sowie wirtschaftlichen Spezialisierungen und der Wirtschaftswachstums- und Produktivitätsentwicklungen für die EU15-Staaten theoretisch und empirisch untersucht. Ausgehend von einer umfassenden...