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Regional effects on cooperative innovation activities and the related variety of regional knowledge bases

Cantner, Uwe; Meder, Andreas - 2009

The literature on Innovation Systems is divided into several directories. Dif- ferences occur through the definition of the system's borders. This paper intro- duces a methodology how to differentiate between regional and technological effects of cooperative innovation activities and analyzes...

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Penetrating the Knowledge Filter in "Rust Belt" Economies

Ács, Zoltán; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 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...

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Penetrating the Knowledge Filter in the Rust Belt

Acs, Zoltán J.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new knowledge and economically useful knowledge. It identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864529

The role of preferences in disagreements over scientific hypothesis: An empirical inquiry into environmental and economic decision making

Kataria, Mitesh - 2010

The Porter hypothesis suggests that environmental regulations, such as restricting firms to reduce pollution, stimulates innovations and create a win-win situation for the environment and for firms. It has received a great deal of attention from academics as well as bureaucrats who disagree...

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Does successful innovation require large urban areas? Germany as a counterexample

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2020

environmental conditions that are absent in smaller cities or remote and rural areas. Germany provides a clear counterexample to … such theories. We argue that a main force behind the geography of innovation in Germany is the country's federal tradition …

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Shades of a socialist legacy? Innovation activity in East and West Germany 1877-2014

Fritsch, Michael; Greve, Maria; Wyrwich, Michael - 2023

. In this process, the poorly functioning socialist system of East Germany adopted the formal institutions and organization … of West Germany, a western-style market economy. We investigate the effect of this integration on patenting activity by …, the gap between East and West Germany widened considerably over time. This divergence in innovation activity suggests that …

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Commercializing inventions from public research: Does speed matter?

Schacht, Alexander - 2012

This study addresses the determinants of time-to-licensing, defined as the elapsed time between the disclosure of an invention and the signed licensing contract, and its impact on the commercial success of the licensed inventions from public research. Using a dataset containing detailed...

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The influence of leadership on academic scientists' propensity to commercialize research findings

Krabel, Stefan; Schacht, Alexander - 2012

Previous studies of organizations have highlighted that leadership and organizational performance have a strong and long-term impact on employee behavior in private firms. In this study, we analyze whether similar effects can also be observed in academia by examining the commercialization...

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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...

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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 …

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