Das im Jahre 1999 ins Leben gerufene GET UP - Gründernetzwerk hatte zum Ziel, die Zahl technologie- bzw. wissensbasierter Unternehmensgründungen in Thüringen spürbar zu steigern und die Gründeratmosphäre an den beteiligten Hochschulen nachhaltig zu verbessern. Der Beitrag analysiert hierzu...

The paper provides an insight into the efforts of Germany to create a culture of entrepreneurship at higher-education institutions and to promote university-based start-ups. The focus is on one particular network initiative - GET UP - which is part of the federal program EXIST University-based...

In 2002 a survey conducted by the University of Applied Sciences Jena pointed out that many young technology-based firms in the Free State of Thuringia in Germany strive for international contacts. 50% of the enterprises that have been surveyed operated internationally, 40 % intends to establish...

Die Bedeutung der Hochschulen im Innovationsprozess von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft kann nicht hoch genug veranschlagt werden. Ihre Aufgaben beschränken sich nicht mehr nur auf die Generierung und Vermittlung von Wissen, hinzugetreten ist mittlerweile auch die sog. Entrepreneurial Science, die...

Based on a survey adapted from the Fourth European Community Innovation Survey (CIS-4), this study finds that, in the changing manufacturing environment of Guangdong province in China, Hong Kong-owned businesses that generate a higher share in new product sales as a percentage of total sales or...

In this paper we examine the importance of financial and other obstacles to innovation in the Netherlands using statistical information from the CIS 3.5 innovation survey. We report results on the effect of these obstacles on the firms' decision to abandon, prematurely stop, seriously slow down,...

The aim of the paper is to assess heterogeneity of the innovation process. Using exploratory factor analysis on micro data from the third Community Innovation Survey in 13 countries, we identify four factors that that can be interpreted as research, user, external and production ingredients of...

We analyze the nanotechnology patent applications filed in China from 1998 to 2008 and find that the extraordinary nanotechnology development in China has been primarily promoted by the public sector but not driven by industry and market force. This finding implies that developing countries such...

Tuberculosis remains the biggest infectious killer in India and worldwide, and it has recently regained substantial international attention with its come-back in drug resistant forms. The environment, the disease and the societal response to it are changing and with it challenges and...