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What determines the efficiency of regional innovation systems?
Fritsch, Michael; Slavtchev, Viktor - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
We assess the efficiency of regional innovation systems (RIS) in Germany by means of a knowledge production function … assessments. We find that both spillovers within the private sector as well as from universities and other public research … the efficiency of its innovation system is inversely u-shaped. Regions dominated by large establishments tend to be less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090473
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How Does Industry Specialization Affect the Efficiency of Regional Innovation Systems?
Fritsch, Michael; Slavtchev, Viktor - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
of externalities of both Marshall and Jacobs’ type. Further factors influencing efficiency are spillovers within the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090590
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Technology transfer offices and university patenting - a review
Ledebur, Sidonia von - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This policy paper on science-industry technology transfer has four emphases: the rationale of recent changes in German science policy, the contribution of diverse transfer channels to economic development as well as the role of IPR in that context, the differences in the institutional framework...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090556
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A Theoretical Framework for Understanding University Inventors and Patenting
Göktepe, Devrim - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper develops theoretical standpoints to investigate and analyse university inventors and patenting activities. Although the studies on academic entrepreneurship and university patenting have substantially increased, first there have not been enough studies on individual inventors and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090563
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Knowledge and its Economic Characteristics - A Conceptual Clarification
Witt, Ulrich; Broekel, Tom; Brenner, Thomas - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090570
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Why and how do scientists commercialize their research? Towards a typology of inventors
Goktepe-Hultan, Devrim - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Incentives and assistance provided by TTOs, university policies, patent legislation and scientific disciplines are certainly part of the explanations for academic entrepreneurship. But they are only one facet of the story. Another facet is related to the scientists' motives, expectations and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005031997
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What do Scientists Want: Money or Fame?
Göktepe, Devrim; Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
What makes scientists patent and disclose inventions to employers? Using a new dataset on Max Planck scientists, we explore their motivations to patent and/or disclose inventions. We propose that patenting need not be used for monetary benefits. Scientists value reputation as important use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032012
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The Process of Creative Construction: Knowledge Spillovers, Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth
Agarwal, Rajshree; Audretsch, David; Sarkar, MB - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Questioning the underlying assumptions of the process of creative destruction, we conceptualize an alternative process of creative construction that may characterize the dynamics between entrants and incumbents. We discuss the underlying mechanism of knowledge spillover strategic...
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Financial Signaling by Innovative Nascent Entrepreneurs
Audretsch, David B.; Bönte, Werner; Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
innovation as well as the project's feasibility. Our analysis of 900 nascent entrepreneurs finds that patents and prototypes … increase the likelihood of obtaining equity finance. Thus, if signals are credible, innovation positively impacts external … that the relation between finance and innovation depends on the stage of a start-up lifecycle. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090597
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Do Firms Benefit from Complementarity Effect in R&D and What Drives their R&D Strategy Choices?
Cantner, Uwe; Savin, Ivan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper analyzes whether firms conducting internal R&D and acquiring external high-tech equipment experience a complementarity effect. For German CIS data we conduct a complete set of indirect and direct complementarity tests refining the analysis by looking at various types of innovations...
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