Business services in Germany: bridges for innovation

Arbeitspapier

During the last 20 years, R&D and innovation activities in the service sector have clearly increased. Especially business services are believed to be one of the main drivers of technical changes and economic progress. Looking at the labour indices calculated over the period from 1982 to 1996 one notices a remarkable increase of over 70 percent for the business services. About 8 percent of total employment in West Germany is in business services. In particular, by taking advantage of information and communication technologies, knowledge-intensive business service firms increasingly play the role of "converters" of technological information within the economy. They are providers, purchasers or partners in the context of innovation. A sound innovation capacity, especially knowledge, creativity, market and management skills let them become bridges for innovation.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 00-52

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: General ; Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights: General ; Industry Studies: Services: General ; Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms ; Firm Behavior: Theory
• Thema: Business Services ; R&D ; Innovation ; Technical Change ; ICT ; Knowledge Flows ; Unternehmensdienstleistung ; Innovation ; Forschung ; Wissenstransfer ; Deutschland

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Czarnitzki, Dirk ; Spielkamp, Alfred
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
• (wo): Mannheim
• (wann): 2000

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/24400
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ