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Historical roots of entrepreneurial culture and innovation activity : an analysis for German regions

Fritsch, Michael; Obschonka, Martin; Wyrwich, Michael - 2018

start-up behaviour. We combine historical self-employment data (entrepreneurial tradition) with a psychological measure for … culture of entrepreneurship is positively related not only to the level of new business formation but also the amount of …

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Surviving against the tide : are new businesses in innovative industries Less affected by general economic trends?

Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian; Schindele, Yvonne - 2014

in other manufacturing industries. The data comprises all German manufacturing start-ups of the 1992 to 2005 period. In …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010360550

Ready to leave the ivory tower? : academic scientists´ appeal to work in the private sector

Fritsch, Michael; Krabel, Stefan - 2009

working in a private sector firm. The analysis is based on data collected from scientists working in the German Max Planck … employment or entrepreneurship. Strong willingness to freely distribute research findings are related to a low appeal of private … sector work. -- Knowledge transfer ; science ; entrepreneurship ; innovation ; commercialization …

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

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

businesses in this respect. -- agglomeration ; balanced skills ; entrepreneurship ; thick markets ; urban diversity …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009723599

Business cycles and start-ups across industries : an empirical analysis for Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Konon, Alexander; Kritikos, Alexander - 2017 - This version: August 25, 2017

We analyze whether start-up rates in different industries systematically change with business cycle variables. We mostly find correlations that are consistent with coun- ter-cyclical influences of the business cycle on entries in both innovative and non-in- novative industries. Entries into the...

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

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2020

Popular theories claim that innovation activities should be located in large cities because of more favorable 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...

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Regional knowledge, entrepreneurial culture and innovative start-ups over time and space : an empirical investigation

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2018

We investigate the role of entrepreneurship culture and the historical knowledge base of a region on current levels of … indicates the prevalence of a regional culture of entrepreneurship. Moreover, local presence and geographic proximity to a …

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The regional emergence of innovative start-ups : a research agenda

Fritsch, Michael - 2018

that analyses using aggregate data that focus on the regional level and do not account for career patterns of innovative …

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Regional public research, higher education, and innovative start-ups : an empirical investigation

Aamoucke, Ronney; Fritsch, Michael - 2013

Based on detailed information about the regional knowledge base, particularly about universities, we find that regional public research and education have a strong positive impact on new business formation in innovative industries but not in industries classified as non-innovative. Measures for...

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Fields of knowledge, types of higher education institutions, and innovative start-ups : an empirical investigation

Aamoucke, Ronney; Fritsch, Michael - 2014

We investigate the role played by different fields of academic knowledge and various types of higher education institutions in the emergence of innovative start-ups in a region. We show that education and research in the applied and natural sciences have the strongest effect on the emergence of...

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