Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI
The Competence Center Innovation and Knowledge Economy analyses the prerequisites for innovations and their effects from the company level up to national innovation systems. It explores the various institutions, instruments and strategies in the economy and science that generate new knowledge and innovations. On the basis of current concepts of innovation economics research in connection with classical methods of empirical economic and social research, current questions regarding the economic and social effects of innovation processes are addressed and the underlying influencing factors at the corporate, respectively macroeconomic level, are identified. In addition, the Competence Center Innovation and Knowledge Economy investigates the contributions of science systems to economic, technological and societal progress.
Current issues studied include the change of knowledge and value creation networks, change processes at company level, the innovation capability of national economies as a whole, as well as scientific-technological trends with transformative character (e.g. industry 4.0, key technologies, digital applications, new business models or platform economies). In addition, the Competence Center analyses the performance of science systems, their economic and societal impact and the transfer of knowledge and technology.
Quantitative as well as qualitative approaches and methods are used to address the research questions. The repertoire includes primary surveys and secondary data analyses, but also the evaluation of large, structured quantities of data such as publication, patent, trademark and company databases, as well as the analysis of unstructured data using text mining, machine learning or other semantic methods (big data).
Our scientific analyses, expert appraisals and consulting services help our clients to better understand current processes and developments, in order to be able to act in a well-founded, forward-looking and targeted manner in the innovation system and to be economically successful.
- Discussion paper: Definition of the research and innovation field of "Artificial Intelligence" and approaches to determining quality
- Discussion paper: Measuring the Causal Economic Effects of Scientific Research - Evidence from the Staggered Foundation of the SENAI Innovation Institutes in Brazil
- Discussion paper: Redefining Criticality in a Changing World - Combining Domestic and Global Perspectives on Enabling Technologies
- Discussion paper: Policies for Industrial Development, International Collaboration and Technological Sovereignty: Implications for Emerging Economies
- Discussion paper: Does New Public Management repel Talent? Findings from a Choice Experiment among German Researchers
- Report: Industrie 4.0 in Baden-Württemberg: (r)Evolution im Kontext von Nachhaltigkeit und Resilienz (short version)
- Discussion paper: Innovation without growth? Exploring the (in)dependency of innovation on economic growth
- Discussion paper: Potential and resilience: Evidence from peripheral regions of Germany
- Journal article: The geography of eco-innovations and sustainability transitions: a systematic comparison, March 2024
- Report: Monitoring des Asiatisch-Pazifischen Forschungsraums (APRA) - Demographische Herausforderungen, Fachkräftebedarf und -migration im Asiatisch-Pazifischen Raum
- Report: Monitoring des Asiatisch-Pazifischen Forschungsraums (APRA) - Länderbericht ASEAN mit Schwerpunkt Malaysia und Thailand
- Report: Monitoring des Asiatisch-Pazifischen Forschungsraums (APRA) - Koreas Wissenschafts-, Technologie- und Innovationspolitik
- Discussion paper: Digitale Geschäftsmodelle: Zugrundeliegende Trends und kennzeichnende Charakteristika
- Discussion paper: Public sector organisations as agents of transformations - A framework for analysing structural changes within Public Sector Organisations (PSO)