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Support for public research spin-offs by the parent organizations and the speed of commercialization

Slavtchev, Viktor; Göktepe-Hultén, Devrim - 2015

We empirically analyze whether support by the parent organization in the early (nascent and seed) stage speeds up the process of commercialization and helps spin-offs from public research organizations generate first revenues sooner. To identify the impact of support by the parent organization,...

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TV and entrepreneurship

Slavtchev, Viktor; Wyrwich, Michael - 2017

compatible with the free-market economy principles and supportive of entrepreneurship. We show that during the 40 years of … socialistic regime in East Germany entrepreneurship was highly regulated and virtually impossible and that the prevalent formal … and informal institutions broke the traditional ties linking entrepreneurship to the characteristics of individuals so …

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Regional entrepreneurial opportunities in the biotech industry : exploring the transition from award-winning nascent entrepreneurs to real start-ups

Wolf, Harald; Michelsen, Claus; Schwartz, Michael - 2010

Knowledge of factors that determine the transition from nascent entrepreneurship into real entrepreneurship is of major … explain transition probabilities, environmental characteristics have been fairly neglected. Given that entrepreneurship is a … transition from nascent entrepreneurship to new venture creation. Based on unique data on 103 nascent entrepreneurs in the German …

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The role of the intellectual property rights regime for foreign investors in post-socialist economies

Schnellbächer, Benedikt; Stephan, Johannes - 2009

We integrate international business theory on foreign direct investment (FDI) with institutional theory on intellectual property rights (IPR) to explain characteristics and behaviour of foreign investment subsidiaries in Central East Europe, a region with an IPR regimegap visàvis West European...

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The characteristics and geographic distribution of robot hubs in U.S. manufacturing establishments

Brynjolfsson, Erik; Buffington, Catherine; Goldschlag, … - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2023

We use data from the Annual Survey of Manufactures to study the characteristics and geography of investments in robots across U.S. manufacturing establishments. We find that robotics adoption and robot intensity (the number of robots per employee) is much more strongly related to establishment...

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Incubator age and incubation time : determinants of firm survival after graduation?

Schwartz, Michael - 2008

On the basis of a sample of 149 graduate firms from five German technology oriented business incubators, this article contributes to incubator/incubation literature by investigating the effects of the age of the business incubators and the firms' incubation time in securing longterm survival of...

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A novel approach to incubator evaluations : the PROMETHEE outranking procedures

Schwartz, Michael; Göthner, Maximilian - 2009

seen as catalysts for the promotion of entrepreneurship, innovation activities and regional development. Despite the vast …

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Auf gute Nachbarschaft? : zentreninterne Netzwerkstrukturen und Determinanten von Wissenschaftskooperationen in deutschen Technologie- und Gründerzentren

Schwartz, Michael; Hornych, Christoph - 2009

Der Beitrag untersucht, inwieweit es durch eine Förderung mittels Technologieund Gründerzentren (TGZ) gelingt, Unternehmen beim Aufbau von Kooperationsbeziehungen zu unterstützen. Im Rahmen einer Querschnittsuntersuchung wird sowohl die Vernetzung der Unternehmen innerhalb der Zentren als...

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Size of training firms and cumulated long-run unemployment exposure : the role of firms, luck, and ability in young workers’ careers

Müller, Steffen; Neubäumer, Renate - 2016

This paper analyzes how life-cycle unemployment of former apprentices depends on the size of the training firm. We start from the hypotheses that the size of training firms reduces long-run cumulated unemployment exposure, e.g. via differences in training quality and in the availability of...

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Technologie- und Gründerzentren im Lichte von Diversifizierung versus Spezialisierung

Schwartz, Michael; Hornych, Christoph - 2008

In Germany, a growing tendency can be observed to focus business incubators (BIs) and technology centers and their respective support elements and processes as well as the selection criteria applied by the incubator management on firms from solely one sector or few but complementary sectors and...

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