Studies

ANIS Report Indonesia: Summarising Report of the Determinants of the Indonesian Innovation System

The maturity level of an NIS as well as the performance of its actors may be improved by means of policy measures addressing either individual determinants or groups. As the determinants are often linked to each other the degree of improvement can even increase and leave a higher impact in the entire NIS. The ANIS approach also contains a portfolio analysis which compares the required effort and the potential impact of certain determinants, especially those that are below average in a given country. One scale represents the "efforts needed" in terms of capability to provide public funds, investments in infrastructure and human resources, policy reluctance, structural changes, etc. The other one represents the "expected impact" in terms of improved framework conditions or improved innovation capacity of the actors. This approach provides a quick and comprehensive picture of the main scope of interventions. As a result of these findings, specific policy measures addressing these determinants can be formulated.

2012

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Continuity, stability and efficiency – how networks and clusters can be sustainably successful

Kontinuität, Stabilität und Effektivität - Wie Netzwerke und Cluster nachhaltig erfolgreich sein können!

The publication explains, by practical examples, the theoretical bases of the highly complex topic “Sustainable Networks”. In addition, networks are presented which have implemented sustainable strategies within different contexts of their network structures, internal processes or their network activity (e.g. financing, overcoming of regional limits of growth, long-term involvement of members, extension of portfolio of services).

2010, free of charge, only in German

Buhl, Claudia Martina

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High-technology business start-ups – antecedents and support of start-ups with special regard to the multimedia sector

Hochtechnologie-Gründungen - Gründungsgeschehen und Gründungsunterstützung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Bereichs Multimedia

Company start-ups, particularly in the high-tech sector, are of great importance for the national economy and for funding policies, because they are designed to maintain competitiveness and to speed up growth. This book analyses current funding instruments for encouraging and supporting business start-ups and examines their specific features and impact.

2010 free of charge, only in German                  

Kerlen, Christiane / Prescher, Sandra / Wiedemer, Volker
ISBN 978-3-89750-164-5

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Fomentando los Sistemas Nacionales de Innovación en Centroamérica – Estrategia de Sistemas Nacionales de Innovación para Honduras y Guatemala: Hacia una Agenda de Innovación Regional – Programa Desarrollo Economico Sostenible en Centroamerica DESCA/GTZ

The study conducted on behalf of the GTZ (Society for Technical Cooperation) describes systems of innovation in Honduras and Guatemala (additionally in El Salvador) as well as approaches to a Central American innovation platform. On this basis, measures are being developed to strengthen players and constellations.

2010, free of charge

The study is exclusively available in Spanish. 

Bovenschulte, Marc
ISBN 978-3-89750-166-9

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Smart Home in Germany – study within the framework of scientific support for the Next Generation Media Programme (NGM) of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology

Smart Home in Deutschland - Untersuchung im Rahmen der wissenschaftlichen Begleitung zum Programm Next Generation Media (NGM) des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Technologie

The brief study “Smart Home in Germany” was worked out in the context of accompanying research on the programme Next Generation Media of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. It is concerned with the relevant current initiatives for the intelligent, networked home in Germany and with barriers to a successful market introduction.

2010, free of charge, only in German        

Strese, Hartmut / Seidel, Uwe / Knape, Thorsten / Botthof, Alfons
ISBN 978-3-89750-165-2

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Business starters’ competitions as an instrument of start-up funding

Gründungswettbewerbe als Instrument der Gründungsförderung         

Competitions of business starters have become established in Germany as an important instrument in the repertory of encouraging and funding start-ups. The results of the study are based on investigations within the framework of the impact analysis of “Business starters’ competition – Starting successfully with multimedia” – a high-tech specific instrument to encourage and support start-ups funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology.                 

2010, free of Charge, only in German      

Kerlen, Christiane / Prescher, Sandra
ISBN 978-3-89750-163-8

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Current status and prospects of R&D cooperations of innovative companies with the Republic of Korea

Stand und Perspektiven für FuE-Kooperationen innovativer Unternehmen mit der Republik Korea

Within the framework of the study conducted at the beginning of 2009, minor innovative companies from Germany were questioned in an online survey about their experiences and/or expectations and wishes concerning cooperations with Asian partners, especially partners from South Korea. The emphasis was on factors of success for and barriers to such cooperations.

2010, free of charge                 

Meier zu Köcker, Gerd / Kergel, Helmut / Garnatz, Liane

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Clusters as instruments for the initiation of R&D activities between Germany and Korea

Cluster als Instrumente zur Initiierung von FuE-Aktivitäten zwischen Deutschland und Korea

Within the framework of a study conducted in 2009, a contribution is made to strategic considerations of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) if and in what form existing innovation networks and clusters in Germany and South Korea can initiate sustainable R&D cooperation’s in the interests of their affiliated companies. The emphasis of the study is on the description and evaluation of the Korean cluster landscape regarding the openness of Korean cluster-based R&D cooperations with Germany.

2010, free of charge

Meier zu Köcker, Gerd / Garnatz, Liane

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ICT enabled independent living for elderly. A status-quo analysis on products and the research landscape in the field of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) in EU-27

We are living in the midst of unprecedented changes: the European Union is faced with rapidly ageing societies while the number of younger citizens is shrinking at the same time. This demographic change will have a major impact on the national economies and health systems. New information and communication technologies for elderly people shall play a crucial role in solving future challenges.

2010, free of charge                 

Dr. Gaßner, Katrin / Conrad, Michael
ISBN 978-3-89750-160-7

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The situation of skilled labour in AAL activity fields – outlook on basic and further training

Die Fachkräftesituation in AAL-Tätigkeitsfeldern - Perspektive Aus- und Weiterbildung

It is the aim of this study to get an impression of the current and future demand for skilled labour in different establishments concerned with AAL-relevant tasks. The important point is to identify first approaches to the question in what way qualification requirements will develop and where barriers exist. The results are intended to give the AAL community, but also policy-makers and the interested public, orientation for planning further training measures and to encourage them to create networks between the relevant players from economy, science and education with a view to generating mutual benefit.

2009, free of charge, only in German

Buhr, Regina
ISBN 978-3-89750-159-1

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Innovation studies and indicators. Lack of information in conditions of abundance of information

Innovationsstudien und Indikatoren. Informationsmangel in der Informationsfülle

The study presents the most important results of the project “Development of a database-assisted platform for the provision of statistical data related to innovation”, conducted jointly by VDI/VDE-IT with FiBS and NordLB/Regional Development for the BMBF. An assessment of needs showed that an increasing number of studies were being conducted on the pertinent fields of innovation which are available online, but can hardly be researched with reasonable expenditure. Nevertheless, there is a high demand for an easy and free access to the studies – often financed with public funds – on future innovation fields.

2009, free of charge, only in German

Kind, Sonja / Wessels, Jan (Hg.)
ISBN 978-3-89750-151-5

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The Egyptian Innovation System. An Exploratory Study with Specific Focus on Egyptian Technology Transfer and Innovation Centres

In order to successfully stand up, in the long run, to global competition, the North African countries, too, have recently begun to devote their attention to the topic of innovations and the building of a functioning innovation system. In this regard, Egypt has assumed a certain pioneering role in comparison with other North African states. The study shows what kind of contribution technology centres in Egypt can make in the context of innovation and technology transfer.

Hahn, Peter / Meier zu Köcker, Gerd

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Development of competencies in high-tech fields – New ways for scientific further training

Kompetenzentwicklung in High-Tech-Feldern – Neue Wege für die wissenschaftliche Weiterbildung

The study takes up a key complex of questions of innovation policy which have repeatedly been the subject of debate in the innovation group on further training of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.             

2008, free of charge, only in German

Kriegesmann, Bernd / Kublik, Sebastian / Schwering, Markus G. / Botthof, Alfons

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Technical training for everybody. A neglected key element of innovation policy

Technische Bildung für Alle. Ein vernachlässigtes Schlüsselelement der Innovationspolitik.

The study takes stock of the situation of technical training in Germany in the areas of infant education, school education, vocational training, university education and adult education. It identifies interfaces between the individual fields of education and develops first approaches to understanding technical training no longer as an isolated matter in the individual links of the educational chain, but as a process of education that is networked and interlinked in many ways.                         

2008, free of charge, only in German

Buhr, Regina / Hartmann, Ernst Andreas (Hg.)
ISBN 978-3-89750-150-8

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Technical skilled labour and managerial personnel in the field of sensor technology and measurement engineering: problems and strategies to overcome them

Technische Fach- und Führungskräfte in der Sensorik und Messtechnik: Problemlage und Bewältigungsstrategien

The sensor technology, measurement and testing systems industry is an all-encompassing field of innovation making available key components and tools to manufacturers of end products of many different industrial branches. The study elucidates the scope on which this industry, dominated by SMEs, is affected by the increasing shortage of skilled and managerial personnel.

2008, free of charge, only in German

Künzel, Matthias / Hartmann, Ernst A.

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German-Polish Network-based R&D-Co-operation. Enablers and Barriers

Practice shows that international R&D cooperations between SMEs can be facilitated if they are initiated and supported systematically and purposefully by networks. The important point here is that the networks interested in cooperations have comparable stages of development and goals. Taking selected Polish and German networks as an example, it is shown where there exist especially high cooperation potentials, but also barriers, in the field of network-based R&D cooperations between Poland and Germany. The study is rounded off by examples of successful bilateral network cooperations.

2008, free of charge

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Sale of innovative products by small and medium-sized enterprises

Vertrieb innovativer Produkte durch mittelständische Unternehmen

The results of the study made by VDI/VDE-IT aim to show SMEs ways of selling their products successfully and also to give suggestions to policy-makers to create overall economic conditions and an environment propitious to SMEs.

2009, €49.90, only in German

ISBN 978-3-89750-157-7

ISBN 978-3-89750-157-7

An Empirical Based Insight View on Emergence, Financing, Management and Competitiveness of the Most Innovative Clusters in Germany

Regional networks and clusters are playing an increasingly important role in Germany from the point of view of innovation policy, which is also due to the fact that there are a number of successful examples of good network and cluster developments. They differ, however, considerably in their structure, goals and performance. This document analyses the 100 or so most efficient regional networks in their structure, financing development and importance of their founding history and network management as well as in terms of the influence these parameters exert on the networks’ overall performance.

2008, free of charge

Meier zu Köcker, Gerd

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Market potential of security technologies and security services

Marktpotenzial von Sicherheitstechnologien und Sicherheitsdienstleistungen

The study was made on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi), jointly with VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH (VDI/VDE-IT) and the Working Group for Security in the Economy, Inc (ASW). It shows that the market for security technologies and the products and services based on them is a market with sustainable growth opportunities for German industry. These opportunities reside particularly in its high system capability, but also in its competency in the use of high technologies.

2008, free of charge, only in German

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