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Policy induced innovation networks: The case of the German Leading-Edge Cluster competition

Cantner, Uwe; Graf, Holger; Hinzmann, Susanne - 2013

actors. In 2008 the German ministry for education and research (BMBF) started the Leading-Edge Cluster competition … 2011 with cluster actors (firms and public research) who received government funding. Our results indicate that the program … was quite effective in initiating new cooperations between cluster actors and in intensifying existing linkages. The vast …

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Policy induced innovation networks: the case of the German "Leading-Edge Cluster competition"

Cantner, Uwe; Graf, Holger; Hinzmann, Susanne - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

actors. In 2008 the German ministry for education and research (BMBF) started the "Leading-Edge Cluster competition … 2011 with cluster actors (firms and public research) who received government funding. Our results indicate that the program … was quite effective in initiating new cooperations between cluster actors and in intensifying existing linkages. The vast …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607504

Balanced skills and the city: An analysis of the relationship between entrepreneurial skill balance, thickness and innovation

Bublitz, Elisabeth; Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2013

Being a jack-of-all-trades increases the probability of running an entrepreneurial venture successfully; but what happens to jack-of-few-trades who lack sufficient skills? This paper investigates a possible compensation mechanism between balanced skills and cities, and how this compensatory...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323899

Ready, set, go!: Why are some regions entrepreneurial jump-starters?

Wyrwich, Michael - 2013

Previous research on market economies characterized by stable framework conditions shows that several regional factors determine start-up activity. Not much is known about what drives entrepreneurship in unstable environments characterized by significant institutional changes that affect the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323904

Actor fluidity and knowledge persistence in regional inventor networks

Fritsch, Michael; Zöllner, Moritz - 2018

The development of inventor networks is characterized by the addition of a significant number of new inventors, while a considerable number of incumbent inventors discontinue. We estimate the persistence of knowledge in regional inventor networks using alternative assumptions about knowledge...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985511

Penetrating the knowledge filter in "rust-belt" economies

Ács, Zoltán J.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - 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

Ács, Zoltán J.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - 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/10010271770

Long-term decline of regions and the rise of populism: The case of Germany

Greve, Maria; Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2021

What characterizes regions where right-wing populist parties are relatively successful? A prominent hypothesis proposed in recent literature claims that places that are "left behind" or "do not matter" are a breeding ground for the rise of populism. We re-examine this hypothesis by analyzing the...

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The fluidity of inventor networks

Fritsch, Michael; Zöllner, Moritz - 2017

We investigate the stability of cooperative relationships between inventors and consequences for the characteristics and patent productivity of the respective regional innovation systems (RIS). The empirical analysis is for nine German regions over a period of 15 years. We find a rather high...

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The role of geographical proximity for project performance: Evidence from the German "Leading-Edge Cluster Competition"

Cantner, Uwe; Graf, Holger; Hinzmann, Susanne - 2015

collaborative R&D projects that were funded within the "Leading-Edge Cluster Competition" - the main national cluster funding …

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