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 …

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 …