This paper analyzes the impact of technological diversity on innovation inputs and success using Swiss firm-level panel data. While we do not find any impact of diversity on R&D intensity, we confirm a positive impact of diversity on patent applications as suggested by the literature. However,...

This paper compares the determinants and the effects of innovation cooperation on innovation performance at firm level in five European countries: Belgium, Germany, Norway, Portugal and Switzerland. In a first step we analyse cooperation agreements with national and international partners and in...

This paper analyzes the effect of public and private third-party funds on the effciency of departments of Swiss public research institutions. Estimating an output distance function assuming that labor is used to produce master students and scientific publications, we find no statistically...

The KOF Youth Labour Market Index (KOF YLMI) is a multidimensional tool that allows analysing the situation on the labour market of young people aged 15 to 24 for 178 countries. The twelve indictors composing the index offer a more complete picture than the simple comparisons of for example the...

Die vorliegende Studie besteht aus drei Teilen. Der erste Teil untersucht, ob der Rahmenlehrplan des Bildungsgangs "dipl. Betriebswirtschafter/in Höhere Fachschule" für Wirtschaft (RLP HFW) den Anforderungen von Studierenden und Arbeitgebern gerecht wird, oder ob die Aktualität des RLP HFW...