We assess the efficiency of regional innovation systems (RIS) in Germany by means of a knowledge production function …. This function relates private sector research and development (R&D) activity in a region to the number of inventions that … assessments. We find that both spillovers within the private sector as well as from universities and other public research …

This paper discusses several features of knowledge that are often considered crucial for characterizing the economic … significance of knowledge: whether it is overtly accessible or tacit, whether it can be or is encoded or not, and whether it has … public or private good character. It is argued that all these features depend similarly on the state of the knowledge …

closely connected with changing knowledge and property rights. The internationalization of markets as a consequence of …

knowledge between actors, which belong to different industries (Jacobs' externalities). We test the impact of both MAR as well …

regulation after the privatization of a former monopolist. As a radical change of the regulatory regime could endanger it as a … instruments of sunset- regulation and self-regulation. We discuss conditions for successful self-regulation under sunset …

mechanism of knowledge spillover strategic entrepreneurship whereby knowledge investments by existing organizations, when … research in entrepreneurship, strategy and economic growth. …