The automotive industry is a major pillar of the modern global economy and one of Europe’s key industries. There can hardly be any doubt about the important role of this sector as an engine for employment, growth and innovation in Europe, and there are crucial challenges and opportunities...

The chapter presents a broad picture of the European automotive industry and seeks to determine how competitive it is internationally and which are the sources of its competitiveness. Competitiveness is defined as the ability of an industrial sector to defend and/or gain market share in open,...

The goal of this paper is to point out the role played by private equity investors (venture-capital companies and corporate investors) in the emergence of a new biotechnology industry in Germany in the second half of the 90's. This analysis takes into account the different business models and...

In diesem Beitrag untersuchen wir das Standortwahlverhalten der Gründer von Biotech-Unternehmen in Deutschland. Hierzu verwenden wir Individualdaten aus dem ZEW Unternehmenspanel und aggregieren diese auf Ebene der 97 Raumordnungsregionen. Die deskriptiven Befunde geben Hinweise auf eine hohe...

Regions with biotechnology-specific knowledge seem to have best chances to attract potential entrepreneurs to establish a biotechnology-firm. The BioRegio contest (BRC) aims to stimulate the creation process of biotechnology clusters in these regions. The multivariate analysis shows that BRC...