Der Beitrag behandelt die wissenschaftlichen Diskussion um die Beeinflussung regionaler Innovationsbedingungen, die mit dem von Hans-Jürgen Ewers und Ko-autoren entworfenen Konzept der innovationsorientierten Regionalpolitik ange-stoßen wurde. Zwar haben sich viele der dem Konzept der...

The paper provides an outline of the concept of regional growth regimes andempirically illustrates the relevance of the concept. The empirical examples areentrepreneurship, entry and the performance of new businesses in East andWest Germany. The differences of the factors determining the...

Steigende Volatilitäten an den Devisenmärkten haben beträchtliche Auswirkungen auf Unternehmen.Zum Teil auch als Reaktion auf diese Entwicklung hat sich das Angebot an derivativenFinanzinstrumenten, mit denen sich Unternehmen gegen die Auswirkungen schwankenderWechselkurse absichern können,...

Informed capital is a crucial ingredient to a well-functioning market for start-upfinance, especially in times of difficult market conditions. For bank-basedsystems, the question regarding which investors actually supply informed capitalhas not yet been answered. To fill this gap, we conduct a...

Die Informationsflut, die dem Entscheidungsträger im Internet aber auch in internen Quellen begegnet, lässt sich nur schwer bewältigen. Daher ist die verfügbare Menge der Informationen zunächst in interessante und uninteressante Informationen zu unterteilen. Dem Entschei-dungsträger sind...

The structure of banking systems has been frequently in the debate over a long time. A re-structuring of banking systems is very often based on the experience of other countries. Ger-man cooperative banks can learn much about the development of Italy's cooperative banks. In contradiction to the...

This paper employs data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP) anddata from the German Social Insurance Statistics to study nascententrepreneurship. In particular, micro data from the GSOEP characterizingemployees and nascent entrepreneurs is combined with regional characteristics.Firstly,...

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 absorptive capacity of actors like employees...

Knowledge is recognized as a crucial element of economic growth in addition to physical capital and labor. Knowledge can be transformed into products and processes and is, in this way, exploited commercially. The ability to produce, identify, and exploit knowledge depends on the existing...