This study addresses the determinants of time-to-licensing, defined as the elapsed time between the disclosure of an invention and the signed licensing contract, and its impact on the commercial success of the licensed inventions from public research. Using a dataset containing detailed...

Previous studies of organizations have highlighted that leadership and organizational performance have a strong and long-term impact on employee behavior in private firms. In this study, we analyze whether similar effects can also be observed in academia by examining the commercialization...

Der Staat übt über die Ausgestaltung der gesetzlichen und institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen einen entscheidenden Einfluß auf die Forschung im Bereich der Zukunftstechnologien und die Innovationstätigkeit der Unternehmen aus. Dr. Gunter Festel und Professor Peter Oberender analysieren die...

Die Bundesregierung hat den „Entwurf eines Gesetzes zur Änderung telekommunikationsrechtlicher Vorschriften“ eingebracht. Diese Novelle zum Telekommunikationsgesetz sieht in § 9a vor, daß „neue Märkte“ nur ausnahmsweise in die Marktregulierung nach dem Zweiten Teil des...

Lange Zeit wurde der technische Fortschritt als mitverantwortlich für die ansteigende Arbeitslosigkeit angesehen. Mittlerweile hat sich eine andere Sichtweise durchgesetzt. Wie wurde früher „technologische Arbeitslosigkeit“ erklärt? Welcher Innovationsbegriff lag den entsprechenden...

The discussion on regional innovation systems emphasizes the duality of local and global links. While the former enable effective knowledge exchange between regional actors, the latter are considered to provide regional systems with knowledge diverse to their knowledge base. Our empirical...

Innovation processes are characterized by a pronounced division of labor between actors. Two types of externality may arise from such interactions. On the one hand, a close location of actors affiliated to the same industry may stimulate innovation (MAR externalities). On the other hand, new...

This paper is concerned with the relationship between innovative success of entrepreneurs and their prior knowledge at the stage of firm formation. We distinguish between different kinds of experience an entrepreneur can possess and find evidence that the innovative success subsequent to firm...

The regional or national innovation performance has been repeatedly measured in the literature; but it has so far not been discussed what this means, especially in relation to a region. What is the contribution of a region to innovation output? The usual approaches implicitly assume that higher...