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...

With the Paris Agreement of 2016, 189 nations signed a legally binding document to keep global warming below 2 C, and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 C. It was recognized that this would reduce climate change impacts substantially. All signatories submitted "Intended...

Aus dem Vorwort: Diese Arbeit will den technischen Informationsnutzen von Patenten aus der Sicht kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen kritisch hinterfragen. Am Ende dieser Studie, in der Mitarbeiter der beteiligten Unternehmen in einem organisatorischen und technischen Kontext mit ausgewählten...

Regional disparities and spatial clustering are ubiquitous in today's world. This study contributes with empirical findings on the distribution of European research and patenting activity since the 1980s at the regional level. Besides a general theoretical part, it offers a quantitative...