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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...

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What determines the efficiency of regional innovation systems?

Fritsch, Michael; Slavtchev, Viktor - 2007

. This function relates private sector research and development (R&D) activity in a region to the number of inventions that … have been registered by residents of that region. Different measures and estimation approaches lead to rather similar … institutions have a positive effect on the efficiency of private sector R&D in the respective region. It is not the mere presence …

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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...

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Gatekeepers in regional networks of innovators

Graf, Holger - 2007

The internal density of a local network is said to increase the regionspecific knowledge-stock and might lead to a comparative advantage. However, it might also lead to a lock-in situation, if local trajectories are directed towards inferior solutions. Accordingly it is argued that successful...

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Measuring regional innovativeness: a methodological discussion and an application to one German industry

Broekel, Tom; Brenner, Thomas - 2007

been discussed what this means, especially in relation to a region. What is the contribution of a region to innovation … be assigned to a region. We argue that more insights are gained if we distinguish between various mechanisms that … influence the innovation activities in a region. Different analyses need to be conducted, using different variables and …

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Demography and innovative entrepreneurship

Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2007

individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or her age and, therefore, that a change in a region's age … distribution affects the expected number of startups in the region. Using German regional data, we estimate a count-data model and …

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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...

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Interaction structures in local innovation systems

Cantner, Uwe; Graf, Holger - 2008

The flow of knowledge through interaction between innovative actors is central to the systemic view of innovation. We review the literature on interaction and innovator networks with a focus on regional aspects. To illustrate the relevance of these relations, we apply social network analysis...

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Local Innovation Systems and Benchmarking

Cantner, Uwe - 2008

This paper reviews approaches used for evaluating the performance of local or regional innovation systems. This evaluation is performed by a benchmarking approach in which a frontier production function can be determined, based on a knowledge production function relating innovation inputs and...

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