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The Innovation, Unemployment and Competitiveness Challenge in Germany

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  • Audretsch, David B

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The purpose of this paper is to link the twin horns of the European economic dilemma - unemployment and a loss in international competitiveness - to a lack of innovative activity. In Germany the Innovationskrise (innovation crisis) combines with the Standortkrise (location crisis) and the Arbeitslosenkrise (unemployment crisis) to form a triad of economic challenges for the 1990s. This paper documents the extent of this economic dilemma confronting Germany as well as the rest of Western Europe and explains how this dilemma developed in the first place. Finally, policies are recommended that can be implemented to overcome this new economic challenge of the 1990s.

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  • Audretsch, David B, 1995. "The Innovation, Unemployment and Competitiveness Challenge in Germany," CEPR Discussion Papers 1152, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
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    1. de Groot, H.L.F., 1998. "Macroeconomic Consequences of Outsourcing. An Analysis of Growth, Welfare and Product Variety," Discussion Paper 1998-43, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research.
    2. Engelhardt, Lutz, 2004. "Entrepreneurial business models in the German software industry: Companies, venture capital, and stock market based growth strategies on the Neuer Markt," Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Institutions, States, Markets SP II 2004-04, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
    3. Showkat Ahmad Busru & G. Shanmugasundaram, 2017. "Effects of Innovation Investment on Profitability and Moderating Role of Corporate Governance: Empirical Study of Indian Listed Firms," Indian Journal of Corporate Governance, , vol. 10(2), pages 97-117, December.
    4. Deeg, Richard, 1996. "German banks and industrial finance in the 1990s," Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Economic Change and Employment FS I 96-323, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
    5. Berthold, Norbert & Fehn, Rainer, 2002. "Struktureller Wandel, new economy und Beschäftigungsentwicklung: welche Rolle spielen die institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen auf dem Kapitalmarkt?," Discussion Paper Series 53, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Chair of Economic Order and Social Policy.
    6. Catherine Matraves, 1997. "German Industrial Structure in Comparative Perspective (Only in German language!)," CIG Working Papers FS IV 97-10, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB), Research Unit: Competition and Innovation (CIG).
    7. Engelhardt, Lutz, 2007. "Der Entry Standard der Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse als Nachfolger des Neuen Marktes: Zwei Versuche institutioneller Innovation in Deutschland," Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Institutions, States, Markets SP II 2007-05, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
    8. Stöß, Elmar, 1996. "Die Finanzierungsstruktur der Unternehmen und deren Reaktion auf montäre Impulse: Eine Analyse anhand der Unternehmensbilanzstatistik der Deutschen Bundesbank," Discussion Paper Series 1: Economic Studies 1996,09, Deutsche Bundesbank.

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    Keywords

    Competitiveness; Germany; Innovation; Unemployment;
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    JEL classification:

    • L0 - Industrial Organization - - General
    • O3 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights

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