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The Paradoxical Fate of the Representative Firm

Schohl, Frank - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998

from competition theory because it neglects the innovation issue. It shows that its subsequent adoption to macroeconomics …

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Von der Markttheorie zur Empirie längerfristigen Märktewandels

Koch, Lambert T. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997

This paper forges links between a dynamic theory of markets and the reality of long term market changes. Goods are seen as being linked to the range of actions which they make possible. Thus it can be shown that the evolution of markets is closely connected with changing knowledge and property...

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Licensing as a Commercialisation Strategy for German Biotechnology Firms

Helm, Roland; Dowling, Michael - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

agreements, are one way for new firms to profit from technological innovation. The aim of this study is to investigate how …

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A New View of General Purpose Technologies

Cantner, Uwe; Vannuccini, Simone - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The economic literature started to recognize the heterogeneity characterizing the nature of different technologies, introducing the concept of General Purpose Technologies. In this paper, we offer a "new view of General Purpose Technologies", building on the historical as well as on the recent...

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Capacity Utilization and Technology Shocks in the U.S. Manufacturing Sector

Krüger, Jens J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

In this paper the time series properties of the outcomes of two different specifications of a nonparametric productivity analysis are compared using data for three- and four- digit U.S. manufacturing industries over the period 1958-96. The first model is standard and does not account for...

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The Shadows of the Past - How Implicit Institutions Influence Entrepreneurship

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper investigates the impact of implicit institutions on the decision to become an entrepreneur. Implicit institutions are here defined as mindsets that have developed as the result of norms and traditions and we expect they will have an influence on risk attitudes and opportunity...

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The Entrepreneurship-Philanthropy Nexus: Nonmarket Source of American Entrepreneurial Capitalism

Acs, Zoltan J.; Audretsch, David; Phillips, Ronnie J.; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

What differentiates American capitalism from all other forms of industrial capitalism is a historical focus on both the …

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Business Cycles, Unemployment and Entrepreneurial Entry - First Evidence from Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Pijnenburg, Katharina - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We investigate whether people become more willingly self-employed during boom periods or in recessions and to what extent it is the business cycle or the employment status influencing entry rates into entrepreneurship. Our analysis for Germany reveals that start-up activities are positively...

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The Impact of Government Procurement Composition on Private R&D Activities

Slavtchev, Viktor; Wiederhold, Simon - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper addresses the question of whether government procurement can work as a de facto innovation policy tool. We … develop an endogenous growth model with quality-improving innovation that incorporates industries with heterogeneous … innovation sizes. Government demand in high-tech industries increases the market size in these industries and, with it, the …

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Diffusion and Competition of Innovative Cardiological Technologies

Grebel, Thomas; Wilfer, Tom - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The paper aims to investigate the diffusion process of two competing innovative technologies in the health care sector. Novelties in cardiovascular surgery will serve as an example. Using a rather simple modeling approach for the ecisions of adopters and suppliers we simulate the evolution of a...

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