The share of knowledge-intensive services and products in total output and demand and in the production of advanced, but also less advanced or emerging economies, has steadily increased over time and especially so for the knowledge-intensive services. This ‘quaternization’ of the economies...

Trade and economic integration in the CIS an evaluation (by Vasily Astrov, Peter Havlik and Olga Pindyuk; pp. 1-3) Keywords trade, economic integration Countries covered CIS Topics International Trade, Competitiveness and FDI Volume and variety of intra-bloc trade in an expanded European Union...

This paper examines how foreign-owned and domestically owned firms transform innovation into employment growth. The empirical analysis, based on the model of Harrison et al. (2008) and CIS data for 16 countries, reveals important differences between the two groups: Due to general productivity...

The promotion of collaborative R&D through Framework Programmes is a top priority of European RTD policy. However, despite the considerable sums involved, surprisingly little is known about the structure of the resulting research networks. Arguing that the underlying technological regime...

A strong innovation performance based on R&D, product development and the implementation of advanced production technologies is key for the long-term competitiveness of European economies. This study investigates the effects of production offshoring on R&D and innovation activities of the firm...

Manufacturing firms increasingly produce and provide services along with or instead of their traditional physical products. The goal of this paper is to provide new evidence for this servitisation of European manufacturing and test previous findings based on case studies with a large, firm-level...

We investigate the effects of production offshoring on the innovation activities of manufacturing firms in the home country. The analysis is based on a dataset of more than 3000 manufacturing firms from seven European countries. We find that offshoring firms on average employ a higher share of...

This paper examines how foreign-owned and domestically owned firms transform innovation into employment growth. The empirical analysis, based on the model of Harrison, Jaumandreu, Mairesse and Peters (2008) and CIS data for 16 countries, reveals important differences between the two groups: Due...

Neue technologische Entwicklungen wie die Eisenbahn oder das Telefon haben dem Welthandel in der Vergangenheit immer wieder entscheidende Impulse gegeben. Heute erlebt die Weltwirtschaft mit der Digitalisierung wieder einen solchen Umbruch. Industrie 4.0, künstliche Intelligenz, Blockchains...

Der Klimawandel, verschiedene Krankheiten oder demografische Veränderungen wie alternde Bevölkerung in den OECD-Staaten stellen globale gesellschaftliche Herausforderungen dar, auf die alle Länder Antworten suchen. Forschung und Innovation können wesentliche Beiträge zur Bewältigung dieser...