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Relative specialisation of EU regions: an econometric analysis of sectoral gross fixed capital formation

Stirböck, Claudia - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

This paper analyses the level of relative specialisation in terms of gross fixed capital formation in EU regions for the period between 1985 and 1994. Controlling for heteroscedasticity and potential endogeneity problems, we get consistent econometric results. Larger market and regional sizes...

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Do University Based Regions Really Attract Outside Entrepreneurs: The Case of the German Biotechnology Industry

Engel, Dirk; Heneric, Oliver - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

The paper tests empirically the role of knowledge stocks to explain the regional distribution of Germany?s biotechnology founders. We present an unique approach to highlight the role of knowledge spillovers as we differentiate according the local embeddedness and research affinity of founders....

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Explaining the Level of Relative Investment Specialisation: A Spatial Econometric Analysis of EU Regions

Stirböck, Claudia - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

This paper analyses the level of relative specialisation in terms of gross fixed capital formation in EU regions. Larger market and regional sizes diminish; a higher unemployment rate, population density, the fact of being a central region, the distance to the economic centre, and economic...

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Spatial Externalities and Empirical Analysis: The Case of Italy

Mion, Giordano - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003

In the last ten years the space issue, i.e. the study of the role played by space in economic phenomena, has attracted a lot of interest from many economic fields. The combination of increasing returns, market imperfections, and trade costs creates forces that, together with factor endowments,...

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Stimuliert der BioRegio-Wettbewerb die Bildung von Biotechnologieclustern in Deutschland?

Engel, Dirk; Heneric, Oliver - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

Regions with biotechnology-specific knowledge seem to have best chances to attract potential entrepreneurs to establish a biotechnology-firm. Furthermore, regional oriented technology policy is supposed to stimulate the creation process of biotechnology clusters, too. The BioRegio contest (BRC)...

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Intermediate input markets, ICT and innovation in Germany: A firm level analysis

Cerquera, Daniel; Klein, Gordon J. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

This paper studies the impact of the adoption of ICT on the economic performance at the firm level, considering explicitly the interaction of adopting firms within the intermediate input market in Germany. The paper identifies and quantifies the importance of adoption externalities and knowledge...

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The impact on innovation off-shoring on organizational adaptability

Baier, Elisabeth; Rammer, Christian; Schuber, Torben - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

We analyze the effects of captive off-shoring of innovation activities on the firms' ability to adapt their … Community Innovation Survey to test our hypotheses. We find an inverted u-shape of innovation off-shoring on the effectiveness … of organizational adaptability, implying an optimal threshold value of innovation off-shoring. This value is 11% for …

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Do trademarks diminish the substitutability of products in innovative knowledge-intensive services?

Crass, Dirk; Schwiebacher, Franz - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

Trademarks are often supposed to reduce substitutability and imitability of product innovations. Using German CIS data for 2010, we provide empirical evidence that trademarking firms assess easy product substitutability as less characteristic for their competitive environment. This is...

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How important is industry-specific managerial experience for innovative firm performance?

Balsmeier, Benjamin; Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

This study examines how industry-specific managerial experience affects firms' innovation performance in the context of …

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Innovation, employment growth, and foreign ownership of firms: A European perspective

Dachs, Bernhard; Peters, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

This paper examines how foreign-owned and domestically owned firms transform innovation into employment growth. The …, reveals important differences between the two groups: Due to general productivity increases and process innovation, foreign … innovation are larger for foreignowned firms. Together with employment-stimulating effects stemming from existing products, they …

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