Germany remains Europe's largest and most diversified source of new technology, but still lags in the fastest growing … had supported Germany's leadership in the high-tech industries of the early twentieth century - automobiles, machinery … to new technological stimuli. In addition, Germany's bank-centered capital and inflexible labor markets have long …

appropriation model, the estimated values for the long-run elasticities of substitution between capital and labor for Germany and …

incentives to scientific work may produce positive feedbacks and increasing returns. The organization of basic research presents … both real and non-real incentives to workers. The state organizes production of new knowledge - a public good that improves … researchers have high relative income but low prestige, and competition for discoveries is weak. On the other hand, the high …

sector regulators in network industries and the powers of the Competition Authority can still be enhanced, as the reform …