We assess the efficiency of regional innovation systems (RIS) in Germany by means of a knowledge production function …

This paper discusses several features of knowledge that are often considered crucial for characterizing the economic … significance of knowledge: whether it is overtly accessible or tacit, whether it can be or is encoded or not, and whether it has … public or private good character. It is argued that all these features depend similarly on the state of the knowledge …

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 work has shown that new firms are more proficient at penetrating the …

This paper is concerned with the relationship between innovative success of entrepreneurs and their prior knowledge at … evidence that the innovative success subsequent to firm formation is enhanced by entrepreneur's prior technological knowledge … but not by prior market and organizational knowledge. Moreover we find that prior technological knowledge gathered through …

knowledge production function relating innovation inputs and innovation outputs. In analyses on the regional level and …

findings can be summarised along the following lines: knowledge stock has a significant positive impact on a firm …

We analyze the development of the German knowledge base measured by co-classifications of patents by German inventors … hypothesis states that technologies which become more central to the knowledge base are also characterized by a higher …