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The global entrepreneurship index (GEINDEX)
Ács, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László - 2009
drive innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266685
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Penetrating the knowledge filter in "rust-belt" economies
Ács, Zoltán J.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270590
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The global entrepreneurship index (GEINDEX)
Ács, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
drive innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032006
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Absorptive capacity and innovation: When is it better to cooperate?
Egbetokun, Abiodun A.; Savin, Ivan - 2012
Cooperation can benefit and hurt firms at the same time. An important question then is: when is it better to cooperate. And how can an appropriate partner be selected? In this paper we present a model of inter-firm cooperation driven by cognitive distance, appropriability conditions and external...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291823
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Firms' differential innovative success and market dynamics
Cantner, Uwe - 2007
This paper deals with innovative activities of firms, the resulting market success as well as the interdependencies between both. In a first theoretical part, different cases of those interdependencies are investigated by the way of a simple model based on replicator dynamics. It is shown that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263832
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Demography and innovative entrepreneurship
Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263837
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Incumbent innovation and entry by spinoff
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2008
incumbents are not willing or able to exploit. Accordingly, incumbent innovation determines exploitable knowledge externalities … for spinoffs while, at the same time, spinoffs are expected to influence incumbent innovation. To overcome this problem of … by spinoffs does, indeed, have a positive impact on incumbent innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266671
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Intellectual property rights and the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship
Ács, Zoltán J.; Sanders, Mark - 2008
innovation. Intellectual property rights protection allows the incumbent firms to capture part of the rents of commercial … generate new knowledge. This has a positive impact on entrepreneurship and innovation. However, after some point, further …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271789
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864516
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Demography and Innovative Entrepreneurship
Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090571