1. Introduction: People, tensions and impact in university interactions -- 2. PhDs with industry partners – assessing collaboration and topic distribution using a text mining methodology -- 3. The heterogeneous impact of academic patent characteristics on firms’ economic performance -- 4....

In this paper we measure knowledge spillovers arising from venture-capital financed companies on the patenting activities of other companies and compare them to spillovers from established firms. We develop a novel measure to to identify the appropriate spillover pool based on backward citations...

This paper investigates empirically firm investment behavior in research and development (R&D). Firms make investments in R&D in order to produce innovations. These innovations in turn improve the firm's future productivity level, pro tability and incentives to invest in R&D. Using German...

Der Harvard-Wissenschaftler Samuel P. Huntington sieht die künftige Weltpolitik bestimmt vom Zusammenprall der Zivilisationen: Der "Westen" stehe gegen den "Rest". Und Kishore Mahbubani, Staatssekretär im singapurischen Außenministerium und einer der Wortführer des neuen asiatischen...