Die Globalisierung ist eine zentrale Herausforderung für Industrieländer wie Deutschland, und multinationale Unternehmen sind ihre wichtigsten Treiber. In diesem Beitrag wird die Internationalisierung der deutschen Industrieunternehmen ab 1995 untersucht und mit der in Unternehmen aus den USA,...

The capacity of people and companies to bring about innovations, that is, to create new knowledge and implement this in new marketable products and services, is of prominent importance for growth and prosperity in highly developed industrial countries. On commission of Deutsche Telekom Stiftung...

The innovative capacity of advanced industrial countries is their most important source of prosperity and growth. DIW Berlin has investigated Germany's innovative capacity for the fourth time in an international comparative survey. The survey evaluates the ability of countries to create and...

An analysis of patent applications filed with the European Patent Office reveals that German companies primarily expand their research activities abroad in high-tech sectors in which they already conduct long-term intensive research. These sectors are: electrical engineering, control technology,...

Germany's economic profile gives reason to believe that the country will emerge strengthened from the current economic crisis. Germany boasts the world's highest share of value-added output attributable to (R&D) intensive goods and knowledge intensive services. At the same time, Germany...

On behalf of the Deutsche Telekom Stiftung (Deutsche Telekom Foundation) and the Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrien (Federation of German Industries) DIW Berlin has investigated Germany's innovative capacity for the fifth time in an international comparison. The survey evaluates the ability...

As a country highly specialized in the production of investment goods, Germany has been especially hard hit by the global recession. Because the production profile of German industry is technology-intensive, however, there is reason to believe that Germany will emerge from the present economic...

Germany has profited from the internationalization of research and development (R&D) in multinational companies. While the international R&D balance sheet was balanced until 2001, foreign companies now invest more in R&D in Germany than German companies abroad. The share of R&D expenditures of...

Nach einer längeren Stagnation in der ersten Hälfte der 90er Jahre sind die Gesamtaufwendungen der Wirtschaft für Forschung und Entwicklung (FuE) in Deutschland von 30,5 Mrd. Euro (1996) auf gut 44 Mrd. Euro (2001) um fast die Hälfte gestiegen. Der überwiegende Anteil dieser Aufwendungen...