innovation culture today, evident by higher levels of quantity and quality entrepreneurship and innovation. The data indicate …

special focus on entrepreneurship and innovation. South Saxony has a long history of self-employment and knowledge generation …

Analysing the relationship between firms' openness to external knowledge and their innovation performance is nothing … focus of this paper. Using unique micro-level innovation data, it is shown, as the existing literature suggests, that firms …. However, innovative firms that exploit external knowledge do not necessarily enjoy greater innovation benefits than those that …

This paper extends the existing literature on strategic R&D alliances by presenting a model of innovation networks with … intensity of cooperation and innovation. Within different knowledge regimes, we examine the structure of networks that emerge …

innovation activity. …

innovation activities, the extent of these advantages is not very large. We conclude that popular theories over-emphasize the … importance of large cities for innovation activities. …

Popular theories claim that innovation activities should be located in large cities because of more favorable … such theories. We argue that a main force behind the geography of innovation in Germany is the country's federal tradition … and distribution of knowledge sources on innovation activities today. We conclude that historical factors that shape the …