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"Year of innovation": Enterprise reality versus wishful political thinking

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  • Heinz Schmalholz
  • Horst Penzkofer

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In spite of unfavourable general conditions, the innovation activities of Saxon industrial firms was maintained last year at a still relatively high level. This is the result of a study conducted by the Ifo Institute and its Dresden subsidiary based on the Ifo Innovation Survey. The results of the Ifo Innovation Survey show a slight rise in 2003 in the number of innovative enterprises for the first time since 2001 in German manufacturing. The regional differentiation of the shares of innovative firms shows, however, that this increase is attributable only to manufacturing in western Germany, which increased its innovation rate by more than 3 percentage points in comparison to 2002. While eastern German industry in 2003 only registered a slight decline in innovative firms of 1.6 percentage points in comparison to the previous year, the innovation rate of industry in Saxony fell by 2.3 percentage points but was still above the eastern German average. For many enterprises the poor business outlook and profit and financing problems are preventing a further exploitation of available innovation potential.

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  • Heinz Schmalholz & Horst Penzkofer, 2004. ""Year of innovation": Enterprise reality versus wishful political thinking," ifo Schnelldienst, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 57(19), pages 19-24, October.
  • Handle: RePEc:ces:ifosdt:v:57:y:2004:i:19:p:19-24
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    1. Horst Penzkofer, 2004. "Innovation activity in manufacturing in 2003: Decline halted but no all-clear signal," ifo Schnelldienst, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 57(06), pages 46-52, March.
    2. Heinz Schmalholz & Horst Penzkofer, 1993. "Innovationsstandort Deutschland : Ergebnisse des ifo Innovationstests," ifo Schnelldienst, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 46(13), pages 17-25, October.
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    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives

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