R&D activities in the German business sector

National Systems of Innovation in Comparison: Structure and Performance Indicators for Knowledge Societies

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 17-30

  Legler, Harald ^a   Rammer, Christian ^b   Grenzmann, Christoph ^c  

^a IPF PHARMACEUTICALS GMBH   (Germany)

^b CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

^c NONE

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EID: 77955247556     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4949-1_2     Document Type: Chapter

References (3)

1. See the summarising article by the European Commission (1997) as well as the references quoted there.
2. It has to be assumed that the decline recorded in the R&D statistics is overstated to some d extent. Despite a lot of efforts made, it is not possible to detect all newly founded firms conducting R&D. The MIP uses a different approach and indicates an increasing share of SMEs conducting R&D until 2000. In subsequent years this share remained constant and increased in 2003.
3. The very low R&D participation quota of newly founded firms in 2003 is caused to a certain extent by a rising number of 'one-man' firms fostered by labour market policy. Only a handful of such firms would be able to conduct their own R&D.