Von der Osterweiterung der EU im Jahre 2004 könnte die Exportwirtschaft in Ostdeutschland aufgrund der geographischen Nähe zu den mittel- und osteuropäischen Beitrittsländern besonders stark profitieren. Anhand der Warenexporte nach Polen und Tschechien - jenen Beitrittsländern, die an...

The strong reliance of the German economy on the industry sector has been a point of criticism for years now. Germany is too strongly focused on export, making it susceptible to crises and fluctuations in demand and exchange rates, the critics allege. A non-critical look at the numbers during...

Nearly 60 percent of globally traded industrial goods are R&D-intensive. Two fifths are goods with very high research intensity (cutting-edge technology), while the remaining three fifths are goods with high research intensity (high-level technology).1 Up until the 1990s, the USA was the global...