This paper investigates the role intangible capital plays for economic growth in different sectors in Germany. It consists of two major parts. In the first part, we aim at measuring investment in intangibles at the sector level. We shed light on differences across sectors but also compare these...

The market launch of product innovations is the most visible output of a firm's investment in innovation activities. To achieve this objective most efficiently, firms strengthen their technological capabilities, acquire external knowledge in a number of different ways, and optimize their...

Trademarking firms are more productive, generate higher profits, and have a better survival rate. Trademarking firms are in one word more successful, which might motivate non-trademarking firms to adopt a trademark strategy. But this seems not to be the case. The proportion of trademarking firms...

Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden die Unternehmensaktivitäten des TechnologieZentrum Koblenz (TZK) seit Gründung analysiert. Insbesondere werden die Entwicklungsverläufe der einzelnen Unternehmen des TZK über die Jahre analysiert und untersucht, in welchem Maße die Unternehmen des TZK zur...

Academic consulting is an important mechanism to transfer tacit knowledge as well as facilitates the transfer of codified knowledge, such as patents. However, not all researchers are equally interested in consulting. A lot of researchers refrain from industry collaboration since external...

Die vorliegende wissenschaftliche Schrift stellt die regionalökonomischen Effekte des Koblenzer Karnevals dar. Unter Nutzung von Primärdaten, volkswirtschaftlichen Ansätzen und bereits existierenden Studien zum Karneval gelingt es, die ökonomischen Effekte des Sitzungs-, Straßen- und...