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Cooperation behaviour and innovation performance in the Nigerian manufacturing industry
Egbetokun, Abiodun A. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Analysing the relationship between firms' openness to external knowledge and their innovation performance is nothing … focus of this paper. Using unique micro-level innovation data, it is shown, as the existing literature suggests, that firms …. However, innovative firms that exploit external knowledge do not necessarily enjoy greater innovation benefits than those that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010556216
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Fear of being left alone drives inefficient exit from partnerships. An experiment
Gaudeul, Alexia; Crosetto, Paolo; Riener, Gerhard - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We explore in an experiment what leads to the breakdown of partnerships. Subjects are assigned a partner and participate in a repeated public good game with stochastic outcomes. They can choose each period between staying in the public project or working on their own. There is excessive exit as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757777
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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
The last decades saw a pronounced shift in innovation policy in Germany and many other countries towards increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607504
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The impact of network structure on knowledge transfer: An application of social network analysis in the context of regional innovation networks
Fritsch, Michael; Kauffeld-Monz, Martina - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
We analyze information and knowledge transfer in a sample of 16 German regional innovation networks with almost 300 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004970282
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How General Conditions Affect Regional Innovation Systems - The Case of the Two Germanys
Fritsch, Michael; Graf, Holger - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We compare two leading regional innovation systems (RIS) in East Germany with two RIS in West Germany of about the same … easily be related to the structural properties of the respective innovation networks because divergent general economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008483754
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A Schumpeterian Heterogeneous Agent Model of the Business Cycle with Innovation Spreads instead of Innovation Swarms
Schohl, Frank - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
lack of empirical confirmation. In particular, the three-wave-scheme stands in contradiction to empirical innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835247
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The Regional Dimension of Sectoral Innovativeness An Empirical Investigation of Two Specialised Supplier and Two Science-Based Industries
Cantner, Uwe; Bürger, Matthias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The aim of this paper is to test how geographical and technological proximity relate to a particular industry's innovative output. Two mechanisms are therefore tested, i.e. agglomeration economies and the regional exploitation of technological proximity. A new dataset is applied, which includes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511321
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The Spatial Diffusion of a Knowledge Base-Laser Technology Research in West Germany, 1960-2005
Fritsch, Michael; Medrano, Luis F. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We analyze the spatial diffusion of knowledge in laser technology in West Germany from 1960, when this technology began, until 2005. Laser technology research has been nearly exclusively conducted in regions that are home to a university with a physics or electrical engineering department, an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511324
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Regional Knowledge and the Emergence of an Industry: Laser Systems Production in West Germany, 1975-2005
Bünstorf, Guido; Fritsch, Michael; Medrano, Luis F. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We analyze the emergence and spatial evolution of the German laser systems industry. Regional knowledge in the related field of laser sources, as well as the presence of universities with physics or engineering departments, is conducive to the emergence of laser systems suppliers. The regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008690483
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Emergence of Innovation Networks from R&D Cooperation with Endogenous Absorptive Capacity
Savin, Ivan; Egbetokun, Abiodun - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper extends the existing literature on strategic R&D alliances by presenting a model of innovation networks with … intensity of cooperation and innovation. Within different knowledge regimes, we examine the structure of networks that emerge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010660259