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Wages in High-Tech Start-Ups – Do Academic Spin-Offs Pay a Wage Premium?

Dorner, Matthias - 2015

Due to their origin from universities, academic spin‐offs operate at the forefront of the technological development. Therefore, spin‐offs exhibit a skill‐biased labour demand, i.e. spin‐offs have a high demand for employees with cutting edge knowledge and technical skills. In order to...

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Wages in High-Tech Start-Ups – Do Academic Spin-Offs Pay a Wage Premium?

Dorner, Matthias - 2015

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The Effect of Broadband Infrastructure on Entrepreneurial Activities : The Case of Germany

Heger, Diana - 2014

This paper investigates whether the local infrastructure favours entrepreneurial activities. Besides the physical and knowledge infrastructure we take into account a county's broadband availability by building an index which accounts for county-related specificities. We find that broadband...

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Skill Composition and Regional Entrepreneurship : A Comparative Study between Germany and Portugal

Grimpe, Christoph; Mendonça, Joana - 2009

infrastructures for entrepreneurship which presumably moderate the relationship between the skill composition and regional … to entrepreneurship. As these should predominantly vary at the national level, we present a comparative study of this … other in terms of economic capacity and geography. Hence, the institutional infrastructures for entrepreneurship may vary …

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University Spin-Off's Transfer Speed - Analyzing the Time from Leaving University to Venture

Mueller, Kathrin - 2009

For academic spin-off's I analyze the length of time between the founder's leaving of academia and the establishment of his firm. Technology transfer can take place even years after leaving the mother institution. A duration analysis reveals that a longer time-lag is caused by the necessity of...

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The Creative Class, Bohemians and Local Labor Market Performance - A Micro-Data Panel Study for Germany 1975-2004

Moeller, Joachim - 2009

The paper aims at testing Florida's concept of the Creative Class using panel data for 323 West German regions for the time period 1975-2004. Applying a dynamic system approach based on GMM, we find that the local concentration of the Creative Class has predictive power for the economic...

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Fishing for Complementarities : Competitive Research Funding and Research Productivity

Hottenrott, Hanna - 2014

This paper empirically investigates complementarities between different sources of research funding with regard to academic publishing. We find for a sample of UK engineering academics that competitive funding is associated with an increase in ex-post publications but that industry funding...

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Innovation, Competition and Incentives for R&D

Woerter, Martin - 2013

This paper analyses the relationship between past innovation output, competition, and future innovation input in a dynamic econometric setting. We distinguish two dimensions of competition that correspond to the concepts of product substitutability and entry barriers due to fixed costs. Based on...

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To Be Financed or Not… - The Role of Patents for Venture Capital-Financing

Häussler, Carolin - 2013

In the presence of asymmetric information, economic agents need to communicate their quality to investors and other parties. While much of the literature focuses exclusively on signaling, we develop a conceptual framework that extends this view with elements of the literature on certification....

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University Spinoffs and the 'Performance Premium'

Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2013

social costs of entrepreneurship are likely to be higher for academic entrepreneurs and empirically investigates the …

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