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What determines the innovative success of subsidized collaborative R&D projects? : Project-level evidence from Germany
Schwartz, Michael; Peglow, Francois; Fritsch, Michael; … - 2010
Systemic innovation theory emphasizes that innovations are the result of an interdependent exchange process between different organizations. This is reflected in the current paradigm in European innovation policy, which aims at the support of collaborative R&D and innovation projects bringing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003950736
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Does Quality Make a Difference? Employment Effects of High- and Low-Quality Start-Ups
Fritsch, Michael - 2011
This paper investigates the impact of new firms' quality on the magnitude of their employment effects. Our results clearly show that the quality of start-ups, measured by their affiliation with sectors and innovative industries, strongly influences the direct and the overall employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124165
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Identifying cooperation for innovation : a comparison of data sources
Fritsch, Michael; Piontek, Matthias; Titze, Mirko - 2019
The value of social network analysis is critically dependent on the comprehensive and reliable identification of actors and their relationships. We compare regional knowledge networks based on different types of data sources, namely, co-patents, co-publications, and publicly subsidised...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011956124
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What Drives the Productive Efficiency of a Firm? The Importance of Industry, Location, R&D, and Size
Badunenko, Oleg; Fritsch, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - 2008
This paper investigates the factors that explain the level and dynamics of manufacturing firm productive efficiency. In our empirical analysis, we use a unique sample of about 39,000 firms in 256 industries from the German Cost Structure Census over the years 1992-2005. We estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014218990
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Business Cycles, Unemployment and Entrepreneurial Entry : First Evidence from Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Pijnenburg, Katharina - 2013
Germany reveals that start-up activities are positively influenced by unemployment rates and that the cyclical component of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014159505
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The Long Persistence of Regional Entrepreneurship Culture : Germany 1925-2005
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2012
We investigate the persistence of levels of self-employment and new business formation in different time periods and under different framework conditions. The analysis shows that high levels of regional self-employment and new business formation tend to be persistent for periods as long as 80...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014040456
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Why Did Self-Employment Increase so Strongly in Germany?
Fritsch, Michael - 2015
Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification … employees and the overall level of self-employment in West Germany, their explanatory power is much lower for the stronger … increase of solo self-employment and of self-employment in former socialist East Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028409
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Who Starts a Business and Who is Self-Employed in Germany
Fritsch, Michael - 2012
entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …
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