Arbeitspapier

Technology and economic performance in the German economy

Germany remains Europe's largest and most diversified source of new technology, but still lags in the fastest growing areas of today's high technology. After World War II, West-German technology policy sought to rebuild the institutions which had supported Germany's leadership in the high-tech industries of the early twentieth century - automobiles, machinery, electrical engineering, chemicals and pharmaceuticals. Increasingly, however, those institutions are seen as failing to respond to new technological stimuli. In addition, Germany's bank-centered capital and inflexible labor markets have long constrained the opportunities of innovative firms for equity-based growth and the incentives for academic brains to set up in private business. Promising changes in technology policy and capital market conditions can be observed only since the mid-1990s.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Kiel Working Paper ; No. 1035

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
economic growth and aggregate productivity
economywide country studies
regulation and industrial policy
technological change
Technischer Fortschritt
Wirtschaftswachstum
Produktivität
Forschungs- und Technologiepolitik
Innovationspolitik
Industrielle Forschung
Hochtechnologiesektor
Regulierung
Risikokapital
Arbeitsmarktflexibilisierung
Deutschland

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Siebert, Horst
Stolpe, Michael
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Kiel Institute of World Economics (IfW)
(wo)
Kiel
(wann)
2001

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Siebert, Horst
  • Stolpe, Michael
  • Kiel Institute of World Economics (IfW)

Entstanden

  • 2001

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