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Does Interdisciplinarity Lead to Higher Employment Growth of Academic Spinoffs?

Mueller, Bettina - 2013

Establishing a new firm is a complex process which comprises many tasks. A common assumption in the theoretical literature on entrepreneurship is therefore that interdisciplinarity is important for successfully running a new firm. Empirically it is still an open question whether...

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University Spin-Off's Transfer Speed - Analyzing the Time from Leaving University to Venture

Mueller, Kathrin - 2009

For academic spin-off's I analyze the length of time between the founder's leaving of academia and the establishment of …

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Afterlife - Who Takes Heart for Restart?

Metzger, Georg - 2008

The performance of young and newly founded firms depends largely to the human capital of the firm owner. The entrepreneur is therefore one of the main success factors for the firm. Yet entrepreneurs differ considerably in their background and characteristics. Particularly, founders' individual...

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The Contribution of Corporate Ventures to Radical Innovation

Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2014

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 …

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What Old Stagers Could Teach Us – Examining Age Complementarities in Regional Innovation Systems

Arntz, Melanie - 2014

demographic aging mainly increasing the older workforce and shrinking the younger one, our results imply that innovation levels in … of the innovation gap across German regions …

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The Creative Class, Bohemians and Local Labor Market Performance - A Micro-Data Panel Study for Germany 1975-2004

Moeller, Joachim - 2009

The paper aims at testing Florida's concept of the Creative Class using panel data for 323 West German regions for the time period 1975-2004. Applying a dynamic system approach based on GMM, we find that the local concentration of the Creative Class has predictive power for the economic...

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Public R&D Policy : The Right Turns of the Wrong Screw? The Case of the German Biotechnology Industry

Fier, Andreas; Heneric, Oliver - 2014

The German biotechnology industry missed the accession of this key technology in the 1980s. Policy makers make different efforts to overcome shortcomings and recent gaps. Public funding schemes have been implemented to establish a flourish biotech industry in Germany. We assume that R&D policy...

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Business Closure and Financial Loss : Who Foots the Bill? Evidence from German Small Business Closures

Metzger, Georg - 2010

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To Be Financed or Not… - The Role of Patents for Venture Capital-Financing

Häussler, Carolin - 2013

In the presence of asymmetric information, economic agents need to communicate their quality to investors and other parties. While much of the literature focuses exclusively on signaling, we develop a conceptual framework that extends this view with elements of the literature on certification....

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An Empirical Analysis of the Effects of Patents and Secrecy on Knowledge Spillovers

Schmidt, Tobias - 2014

protection methods in an industry on the innovation activities of firms using external knowledge. One goal is to assess if firms … have moved to a more open innovation business model, i.e. allow more knowledge spillovers to occur despite using protection … methods. Our estimations show that the usage of both, patents and secrecy, hinders the innovation activities of firms through …

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