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Who starts a business and who is self-employed in Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Rusakova, Alina - 2012
entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2011, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socio … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …
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Self-employment after socialism: Intergenerational links, entrepreneurial values, and human capital
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2012
post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the socialist regime significantly damaged this mechanism of an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291817
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The long persistence of regional entrepreneurship culture: Germany 1925 - 2005
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2012
We investigate the persistence of levels of self-employment and new business formation in different time periods and under different framework conditions. The analysis shows that high levels of regional self-employment and new business formation tend to be persistent for periods as long as 80...
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Who are the brokers of knowledge in regional systems of innovation? A multi-actor network analysis
Kauffeld-Monz, Martina; Fritsch, Michael - 2008
The discussion on regional innovation systems emphasizes the duality of local and global links. While the former enable effective knowledge exchange between regional actors, the latter are considered to provide regional systems with knowledge diverse to their knowledge base. Our empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330091
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The geography and the effect of creative people in Germany
Fritsch, Michael - 2007
This paper investigates the geography and the effect of people in creative oc-cupation in Germany. The population share …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263781
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What determines the efficiency of regional innovation systems?
Fritsch, Michael; Slavtchev, Viktor - 2007
We assess the efficiency of regional innovation systems (RIS) in Germany by means of a knowledge production function …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263783
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Industry specialization, diversity and the efficiency of regional innovation systems
Fritsch, Michael; Slavtchev, Viktor - 2007
Innovation processes are characterized by a pronounced division of labor between actors. Two types of externality may arise from such interactions. On the one hand, a close location of actors affiliated to the same industry may stimulate innovation (MAR externalities). On the other hand, new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263793
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The impact of network structure on knowledge transfer: an application of social network analysis in the context of regional innovation networks
Fritsch, Michael; Kauffeld-Monz, Martina - 2008
We analyze information and knowledge transfer in a sample of 16 German regional innovation networks with almost 300 firms and research organizations involved. The results indicate that strong ties are more beneficial for the exchange of knowledge and information than weak ties. Moreover, our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263880
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How does industry specialization affect the efficiency of regional innovation systems?
Fritsch, Michael; Slavtchev, Viktor - 2008
This study analyzes the relationship between the specialization of a region in certain industries and the efficiency of the region in generating new knowledge. The efficiency measure is constructed by relating regional R&D input and output. An inversely u-shaped relationship is found between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263890
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The contribution of new businesses to regional employment: an empirical analysis of the direct employment effect
Fritsch, Michael; Schindele, Yvonne - 2008
We investigate regional differences in the contribution of newly founded businesses to regional employment. This is labeled the direct employment effect of new businesses. The analysis is at the spatial level of West German planning regions for the period 1984-2002. We find rather pronounced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266641