Im Süden Deutschlands fließt am meisten Geld in Forschung und Entwicklung - und das zahlt sich aus: Nirgendwo werden mehr Patente angemeldet. Um forschende Unternehmen staatlich zu fördern, sollten sie steuerlich entlastet werden.
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In Germany, there is a close link between R & D expenditures and employment of STEM graduates to successful patent applications. This chain of effects can be shown to exist both at the federal and regional level. Furthermore, virtually every indicator of innovation-related power exhibits a considerable southnorth, west-east, and urban-rural divide.
Start-ups and innovative entrepreneurs are drivers of economic growth in regions and nations. But European regions show a rather low number of successful high growth start-ups compared to the United States. A contribution by Economist Klaus-Heiner Röhl on the Blog of the International Network for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (INSME).
Structural change and economic growth
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