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In a framework of a multivariate analysis of patent data this study applies a method of defining and analysing technology-based clusters of companies with the help of patent classification. In addition to the utilization of US patent classification we compare the results of a second analysis...
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This paper discusses the role of so-called national champions within the context of the EU's ambitious goal to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economic region in the world by 2010. We find football to be a useful analogy in our discussion of national champions. There are...
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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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What differentiates American capitalism from all other forms of industrial capitalism is a historical focus on both the …
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lack of empirical confirmation. In particular, the three-wave-scheme stands in contradiction to empirical innovation …
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 …
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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 …
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