Estimating the economic returns to public science investments has been a key topic in economics. However, while in particular microeconomic approaches have been proposed, only a few studies have tried estimating the macroeconomic effects of public science investments. In this paper, we propose a...

This discussion paper intends to describe the current status of the Chinese science and innovation system - mainly on the national level - as well as the developments of the past about 10 years that led to this current status.

In dieser Kurzstudie zu Forschung und Entwicklung (FuE) in Staat und Wirtschaft werden ausgewählte Kernindikatoren aktualisiert und analysiert. Im Fokus stehen Indikatoren zur Position Deutschlands im internationalen FuE-Wettbewerb und Kennzahlen zur sektoralen und regionalen Verteilung der...