In der letzten Welle des ifo Innovationstests wurde erstmals ein Fragenkomplex zum Kooperationsverhalten von Unternehmen im Innovationsprozess aufgenommen. Erste deskriptive Auswertungen zeigen erhebliche Unterschiede zwischen Unternehmensgrößenklassen, Regionen und Branchen. Kleinere und...

Globalization has had an enormous impact on traditional industrial structures. It seems almost the case that everything is everywhere the same. And yet, in reality, some regions in a single industrialized country enjoy rapid economic growth while others are downsizing or stagnating. Thus there...

Um der Frage nachgehen zu können, ob Generationengerechtigkeit grundsätzlich Aufgabe von Unternehmen sein kann, muss zunächst beantwortet werden, ob Unternehmen als kollektive Akteure moralische Verantwortung tragen können. Dazu wird ein Ansatz vorgestellt, der die Selbstbindungsfähigkeit...

Dieser Beitrag analysiert die Einbettung des Unternehmens über Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in das Wirtschaftssystem. CSR wird dabei als freiwilliges Engagement der Unternehmen verstanden, das dazu beiträgt, etwaige Lücken zwischen gesellschaftlichen Vorstellungen und...

The United States have them, European countries long for them, and universities are supposed to provide them"entrepreneurs are ubiquitously wanted because of their supposed impact on innovation and economic growth. The underlying mechanism is developed in Schumpeter's (1912) Theory of Economic...

In this paper, we assess educational factors which might have an impact on entrepreneurship. We analyze influences on the entrepreneurial intentions of German university students and find that pre-university education significantly affects their desire to become an entrepreneur. Using the recent...

We exploit Germany’s reunification to identify how school-age education affects entrepreneurial intentions. We look at university students in reunified Germany who were born before the Iron Curtain fell. During school age, all students in the West German control group received formal and...

We exploit Germany's reunification to identify how school-age education affects entrepreneurial intentions. We look at university students in reunified Germany who were born before the Iron Curtain fell. During school age, all students in the West German control group received formal and...