Setting up an innovative new firm is a way of commercializing knowledge. The paper gives an overview of the extent of … new firm formation in knowledge intensive and in innovative German industries and their development. The founding of a new …

We investigate the role of universities as a knowledge source for regional innovation processes. The contribution of … pure size is unimportant. Therefore, a policy that wants to promote regional innovation processes by building up …

This paper uses a cognitive theory of firms and organizations, with a focus on learning and innovation.Here, cognition … collaboration between firms, for learning and innovation, in the combination of capabilities between rather than within the firm …

Knowledge is recognized as an important ingredient for economic growth in addition to physical capital and labor. While … transforming knowledge into products and processes it is exploited commercially. Nevertheless, the existing knowledge stock and the … for the ability to produce, identify, and exploit knowledge. Since incumbent firms do not exploit new knowledge to the …

The objective of data mining is the extraction of knowledge from databases. In practice, one often encounters … difficulties with models that are constructed purely by search, without incorporation of knowledge about the domain of application …

The assessment of knowledge derived from databases depends on many factors. Decision makers often need to convince … others about the correctness and effectiveness of knowledge induced from data.The current data mining techniques do not … contribute much to this process of persuasion.Part of this limitation can be removed by integrating knowledge from experts in the …

of those choices, namely, subunit interdependencies and knowledge transfer costs.We test our predictions with a …

This chapter explains and employs a constructivist, interactionist theory of knowledge that has come to be known as the … distance between firms for innovation by interaction. …