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What determines the efficiency of regional innovation systems?
Fritsch, Michael; Slavtchev, Viktor - 2007
We assess the efficiency of regional innovation systems (RIS) in Germany by means of a knowledge production function … efficiency of its innovation system is inversely u-shaped. Regions dominated by large establishments tend to be less efficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263783
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The spatial diffusion of a knowledge base: Laser technology research in West Germany, 1960-2005
Fritsch, Michael; Medrano, Luis F. - 2010
We analyze the spatial diffusion of knowledge in laser technology in West Germany from 1960, when this technology began … of laser knowledge was especially prevalent in large agglomerations. While we cannot detect knowledge spillovers from … research later, indicating the accumulation of knowledge generated in previous periods. Our results highlight the role of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286451
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The Spatial Diffusion of a Knowledge Base-Laser Technology Research in West Germany, 1960-2005
Fritsch, Michael; Medrano, Luis F. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We analyze the spatial diffusion of knowledge in laser technology in West Germany from 1960, when this technology began … of laser knowledge was especially prevalent in large agglomerations. While we cannot detect knowledge spillovers from … research later, indicating the accumulation of knowledge generated in previous periods. Our results highlight the role of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511324
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What determines the efficiency of regional innovation systems?
Fritsch, Michael; Slavtchev, Viktor - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
We assess the efficiency of regional innovation systems (RIS) in Germany by means of a knowledge production function … the efficiency of its innovation system is inversely u-shaped. Regions dominated by large establishments tend to be less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090473
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Occupational choice and self-employment: Are they related?
Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael - 2013
Often, a person will become an entrepreneur only after a period of dependent employment, suggesting that occupational choices precede entrepreneurial choices. We investigate the relationship between occupational choice and self-employment. The findings suggest that the occupational choice of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291848
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Stepping forward: Personality traits, choice of profession, and the decision to become self-employed
Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina - 2013
We argue that entrepreneurial choice proceeds in at least in two steps, with vocational choice nearly always preceding choice of employment status, whether that be self-employment or dependent employment. Since the two decisions are interrelated, analysis of entrepreneurial choice as a single...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291849
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Balanced skills and the city: An analysis of the relationship between entrepreneurial skill balance, thickness and innovation
Bublitz, Elisabeth; Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2013
Being a jack-of-all-trades increases the probability of running an entrepreneurial venture successfully; but what happens to jack-of-few-trades who lack sufficient skills? This paper investigates a possible compensation mechanism between balanced skills and cities, and how this compensatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323899
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Globalization and employment: imported skill biased technological change in developing countries
Conte, Andrea; Vivarelli, Marco - 2007
This paper discusses the impact of the international transfer of embodied technological change on the employment evolution of skills in a sample of low and middle income countries (LMICs). A large body of literature has already underlined the occurrence of widening wage and employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263785
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Bohemians, human capital, and regional economic growth
Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - 2009
An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region’s lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains geographic disparities in economic growth. However, to date, there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271178
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Globalization and Employment:Imported Skill Biased Technological Changein Developing Countries
Conte, Andrea; Vivarelli, Marco - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
This paper discusses the impact of the international transfer of embodiedtechnological change on the employment evolution of skills in a sample of low andmiddle income countries (LMICs). A large body of literature has already underlinedthe occurrence of widening wage and employment differentials...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864589