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Ready to leave the ivory tower? Academic scientists' appeal to work in the private sector
Fritsch, Michael; Krabel, Stefan - 2009
employment or entrepreneurship. Strong willingness to freely distribute research findings are related to a low appeal of private …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267108
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Research network position and innovative performance: Evidence from the pharmaceutical industry
McKelvey, Maureen; Rake, Bastian - 2012
This paper explores how and why collaboration with different types of partners and the position within a research network can affect firms' innovative performance in terms of product innovations. A detailed empirical analysis is carried out in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291819
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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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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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Networks and innovation: the role of social assets in explaining firms' innovative capacity
Cantner, Uwe; Conti, Elisa; Meder, Andreas - 2009
The claim of a positive association between a firm’s social assets and its inno-vative capacity is a widely debated topic in the literature. Although controversial, such an argument has informed recent innovation policy across Germany, increasingly di-rected to cluster formation. In the light...
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267085
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The Random part in network evolution
Grebel, Thomas - 2009
Economic behavior strives for efficiency. Therefore, also evolving network structures should be a result of such a goal-oriented behavior. Traditionally, networks were assumed to be only temporary phenomena, since the prevailing organizational forms that comply with the efficiency postulate are...
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Innovator networks and regional knowledge base
Cantner, Uwe; Meder, Andreas; ter Wal, Anne - 2008
This paper concerns the regional innovation system approach. It deals with the characteristics of three regional systems, Northern Hesse, Alpes-Maritime and Jena, and focusses on each regional network of innovators. In this context the importance of the size and homogeneity of a regional pool of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277077
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The internationalization of science and its influence on academic entrepreneurship
Krabel, Stefan; Siegel, Donald S.; Slavtchev, Viktor - 2009
entrepreneurship. Our empirical analysis is based on a survey of researchers at the Max Planck Society in Germany. We find that mobile … scientists are more likely to become nascent entrepreneurs. Thus, it appears that citizenship and foreign-education are important … determinants of the early stages of academic entrepreneurship. …
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