This volume was prepared by Jens Ruhose while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the...

This dissertation consists of five distinct empirical papers covering two large areas of research that are rather independent from each other: the economics of ageing and the economics of innovation. The first three chapters cover the impact of intergeneration interaction on the parents of adult...

Das ifo Institut führt sein 1979 in der deutschen Industrie eine Befragung über deren Innovationsaktivitäten durch, die als Entscheidungshilfe für Wirtschaft und Politik dienen soll. Als Testergebnisse der Jahre 1990-1997 werden dabei zunächst Innovationsschwerpunkte, -ziele und -hemmnisse...