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Policy induced innovation networks: the case of the German "Leading-Edge Cluster competition"
Cantner, Uwe; Graf, Holger; Hinzmann, Susanne - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
actors. In 2008 the German ministry for education and research (BMBF) started the "Leading-Edge Cluster competition … 2011 with cluster actors (firms and public research) who received government funding. Our results indicate that the program … was quite effective in initiating new cooperations between cluster actors and in intensifying existing linkages. The vast …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607504
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Balanced Skills and the City: An Analysis of the Relationship between Entrepreneurial Skill Balance, Thickness and Innovation
Bublitz, Elisabeth; Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Being a "jack-of-all-trades" increases the probability of running an entrepreneurial venture successfully; but what happens to "jack-of-few-trades" who lack sufficient skills? This paper investigates a possible compensation mechanism between balanced skills and cities, and how this compensatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884449
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Ready, set, go! Why are some regions entrepreneurial jump-starters?
Wyrwich, Michael - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Previous research on market economies characterized by stable framework conditions shows that several regional factors determine start-up activity. Not much is known about what drives entrepreneurship in unstable environments characterized by significant institutional changes that affect the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884453
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Penetrating the Knowledge Filter in the Rust Belt
Acs, Zoltan; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new knowledge and economically useful knowledge. It identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090542
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Penetrating the Knowledge Filter in "Rust Belt" Economies
Acs, Zoltan; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new generic knowledge and economically-useful knowledge. It identifies both the formation of new ventures and the absorptive capacity of incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090606
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Cluster Innovation Along the Industry Lifecycle
Eisingerich, Andreas; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
depth face-to-face interviews in clusters across two continents to examine the drivers of a cluster's innovativeness along … the industry lifecycle. The results from our interviews suggest that the impact of key drivers of cluster innovativeness … change depending on the stage of a cluster's underlying industry lifecycle. Classifying clusters as either being adolescent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090533