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Demography and Innovative Entrepreneurship

Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or...

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Trade Liberalisation, Process and Product Innovation, and Relative Skill Demand

Braun, Sebastian - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2006

The interaction between trade liberalisation, product and process innovation, and relative skill demand is analysed in … substitutability of their products through additional investment in product innovation. The paper also shows that the relative demand …

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Innovation Networks of High Tech SMES: Creation of Knowledge but no Creation of Value

Winters, Rob; Stam, Erik - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

This paper analyses the effects of innovation networks on product and pro-cess innovation and sales growth of high … technology SMEs. Innovation net-works are positively related to both product and process innovation, i.e. know-ledge creation …. One exception is the negative effect of innovation networks with suppliers on product innovation. Older SMEs are more …

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Penetrating the Knowledge Filter in "Rust Belt" Economies

Ács, Zoltán; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2008

A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new generic knowledge and economically-useful knowledge. It identifies both the formation of new ventures and the absorptive capacity of incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical...

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Penetrating the Knowledge Filter in the Rust Belt

Acs, Zoltán J.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new knowledge and economically useful knowledge. It identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at...

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What kind of shock was it? Regional Integration and Structural Change in Germany after Unification

C. Burda, Michael - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2006

Eastern Germanys recovery from the unification shock has beencharacterized by deep structural change with apparent repercussions for the West as well and an integration process involving both capital deepening (extensive and intensive investment) and labor thinning (net out-migration). I propose...

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Produktdiversifizierung : Haben die ostdeutschen Unternehmen den Anschluss an den Westen geschafft?

Görzig, Bernd; Gornig, Martin; Werwatz, Axel - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2006

Die Gestaltung der Produktpalette war ein zentrale Herausforderung für ostdeutsche Unternehmen nach der Wende. Spezialisierung oder eine diffuse Generalistenstrategie war die Frage. Welche Strategie sich durchgesetzt hat und ob der Anschluss an den Westen gelang, wird in dieser Arbeit erstmals...

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Links between sustainability-related innovation andsustainability management

Wagner, Marcus - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2008

This paper analyses the link between sustainability-related innovation and sustainability performance and the role that … that are family-owned. Governments often support environmentally and socially beneficial innovation withvarious policy … will foster such innovation in their organisation. Hence the main research question of thispaper is about the association …

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Genetic Codes of Mergers, Post Merger Technology Evolution and Why Mergers Fail

Cuntz, Alexander - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2008

This paper addresses the key determinants of merger failure, in particularthe role of innovation (post … introduce a model of process innovation where merged firmsexibit intra-merger spillover of knowledge under different market …) which contradicts the notion of failureand suits well the open innovation paradigm. …

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Determinants of the Acquisition of Smaller Firms by Larger Incumbents in High-Tech Industries: Are they related to Innovation and Technology Sourcing?

Wagner, Marcus - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin>

Innovation activities in high tech industries provide considerable challenges for technology and innovation management … with different aspects of acquisition behaviour. Particular focus is put on innovation-related firm characteristics. The …

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