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| Title: | | Business services in Germany: bridges for innovation  |
| Authors: | | Czarnitzki, Dirk Spielkamp, Alfred |
| Issue Date: | | 2000 |
| Series/Report no.: | | ZEW Discussion Papers 00-52 |
| Abstract: | | 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. |
| Subjects: | | Business Services R&D Innovation Technical Change ICT Knowledge Flows |
| JEL: | | C20 O30 L80 L11 D21 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des ZEW ZEW Discussion Papers
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