, innovation output and skill composition for German regions by conducting an Exploratory Space-Time Data Analysis (ESTDA). Beside … variables. Overall, we find strong clustering tendencies for the demographic variables and innovation that constitute a great … among regions that may further reinforce the observed innovation divide in the future. …

This paper considers the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program as a policy fostering academic … entrepreneurship. We highlight two main characteristics of the program that make it attractive as an entrepreneurship policy : early … the incidence of biomedical entrepreneurship through SBIR and describe some of the characteristics of these individuals …

The massive economic crisis 2008/09 had substantial impacts on the innovation activities of the German economy. The … loss in sales and profits resulted in a sharp decline of innovation expenditure. While capital expenditure for new products … and improved processes were cut substantially, R&D budgets basically remained unchanged. Firms with innovation and R …

Arbeit. ; This paper examines the determinants, that influence the environmental innovation behaviour of companies in Germany … general structures of the determinants of environmental innovation, as well as the specific impact of environmental policy … instruments as an integral part of this framework. The pressure of environmental policy instruments on the innovation behaviour of …

This paper examines the determinants of gross labour flows in a context where modeling the migration decision as a wage …

Established firms often face significant obstacles to innovation. As a solution, it has been suggested to form … monitored by their corporate sponsors, resulting in less favorable conditions for radical innovation. …