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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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Does quality make a difference? : employment effects of high- and low-quality start-ups

Fritsch, Michael; Schroeter, Alexandra - 2010

influences the direct and the overall employment contribution of new firms. In particular, start-ups in manufacturing industries … and in knowledge-intensive service industries make a larger direct contribution to employment than start-ups affiliated …-intensive service industries. However, the impact of start-ups in innovative manufacturing industries on overall regional employment …

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

Aamoucke, Ronney; Fritsch, Michael - 2014

institutions in the emergence of innovative start-ups in a region. We show that education and research in the applied and natural …

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

Fritsch, Michael - 2018

can be mainly expected from research that investigates the family backgrounds, education, and employment careers of …

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

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2018

-2014. We find a pronounced positive relationship between high levels of historical self-employment in science-based industries … technical university founded before the year 1900 is positively related to the level of innovative start-ups more than a century …

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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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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 …

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The global entrepreneurship index (GEINDEX)

Acs, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László - 2009

This paper constructs a Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEINDEX) that captures the contextual feature of entrepreneurship across countries. We find the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development to be mildly S-shaped not U-shaped or L-shaped. Our findings suggest moving away...

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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 …

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Innovative start-up patenting : a new approach towards identification and determinants

Wolf, Tina - 2013

There already exists broad literature investigating small and innovative firms in many respects. However, there have been few attempts to assess this group of firms ́propensity to patent or its patenting activities. This paper intends to fill that gap. By applying a new approach to account for...

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