The long duration of the current economic upswing has smoothed most regional economic imbalances. A tight labour market in the western part of Austria has helped laggards, such as Styria, to catch up; only Vienna is falling behind. The manufacturing sector, the engine of growth in the other...

Die österreichischen Industrieunternehmen wurden nach dem Kriterium der Ähnlichkeit ihrer Patentstrukturen zu Gruppen zusammengefaßt. Diese technologischen Cluster sind typischerweise jeweils nur mit einigen wenigen Unternehmen besetzt. Das Ausmaß potentiell nutzbarer externer Effekte...

Direct government aid and fiscal incentives for research and development each have distinctive advantages and disadvantages. An appropriate mix adjusted to prevailing conditions may increase the efficiency of the system of government aid. As a matter of fact, the majority of OECD countries...

As a highly developed, high-wage country, Austria faces new challenges in a globalizing economy. Austria will only be able to maintain its position in the club of high-income countries if it is able to achieve a high productivity level through the use of new technologies and by taking advantage...

In order to establish guidelines for technology policy and promotion a set of "clusters", i.e., inter-related industrial activities, each representing a combination of high technological and economic competitiveness has been elaborated for Austria. Generally speaking, such clusters are not...

The Fall Investment Survey of WIFO indicates that manufacturing, electricity companies as well as public transportation and utilities invested less than planned. In 1992, all three sectors intend to step up their capital outlays. The construction sector, which has not been affected by the...

The OECD has been measuring the total research and development content of output flows for several years. This measure not only includes direct R&D expenditures, but also the research and development content of intermediate and investment goods, both domestic and imported. In many cases, this...

Seit zwei Jahrzehnten ist der Jahresbericht über die Wirtschaft in den Bundesländern fester Bestandteil der WIFO-Monatsberichte. Darüber hinaus erstellt das WIFO – ebenfalls seit rund zwei Jahrzehnten – Quartalsberichte zur Konjunktur in den Bundesländern für einen begrenzten Kreis von...

Nowadays regional policy measures are expected to satisfy more stringent criteria than in the past. In accordance with this trend the program "Regional investment premium" has been evaluated concurrently from the inception of this program to its end. Changes in the environment require that...

Compared with other industrialized countries, Austria exhibits a substantial "technology gap" in foreign trade that is revealed in a low share of high-technology products in manufacturing exports and in low unit values. The resulting deficit in foreign trade with high-technology products totaled...