Department of Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute of Economic Research. It was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the … ihrer Tätigkeit als wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin in der Abteilung Humankapital und Innovation des ifo Instituts erstellt …

This thesis groups three papers examining the role of multi-location firms in the geographic diffusion of knowledge …. The first chapter examines whether a firm's headquarters can tap into the knowledge pool in a remote location through FDI … “satellite effect” on knowledge diffusion is economically significant, representing 47% of the knowledge flow premium associated …

This paper focuses on knowledge-based entrepreneurship, or new firm creation in industries which are considered to be … studies of thirteen knowledge-based firms in six ECE countries, we suggest that KBE firms in these countries may differ in … some important ways from the conventional picture of new technology based firms. In general, we see the ECE knowledge …