between labor of different skills (tasks) on the one hand, and technology as well as outsourcing on the other. Our findings …

, tolerance, technology, and territory both as a stand-alone metropolitan area and in comparison to similar industrial … has the opportunity to capitalize on the creative economy because of its openness to diversity, established technology …

lack of empirical confirmation. In particular, the three-wave-scheme stands in contradiction to empirical innovation …

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 indication of the science-based character of the technology. Early adoption …

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 …

In the past decades the role of profit sharing schemes (PSS) as a way to foster innovation in a principal-agent context …, and more generally of innovation in economic growth, have been widely acknowledged and studied. However, surprisingly … innovation in a pure knowledge economy: a 'patent box' incentive and a tax incentive on compensation earned by agents as PSS. A …

The relationship between innovation and firm survival is analyzed for the population of German laser source producers … from the beginning of the industry until 2005. Innovation effort is approximated by the generation of high quality patents … in laser sources technology (IPC H01S) and by having patents with university inventors. Quality patents are defined as …