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Methods of analyzing the relationship between new business formation and regional development

Fritsch, Michael - 2012

The paper reviews the approaches that have been followed for analyzing the effect of new business formation on regional development. It begins with an outline of how start-ups may affect regional development. In dealing with different ways of empirically assessing these effects, I particularly...

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Natural and economic selection : lessons from the evo-devo and multilevel selection debate

Schwesinger, Georg - 2013

This paper sheds new light on the concept of selection in evolutionary economics. The interpretation of natural evolution has experienced significant changes in the last decades, while these developments have been often ignored by economists. This is especially true for the concept of selection,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009736801

One swallow doesn ́t make a summer : a note

Kataria, Mitesh - 2013

Maniadis et al. (2013) present a theoretical framework that aims at providing insights into the mechanics of proper inference. They suggest that a decision about whether to call an experimental finding noteworthy, or deserving of great attention, should be based on the calculated post-study...

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Assessing mental models via recording the decision deliberations of pairs

Berninghaus, Siegfried; Güth, Werner; Klempt, Charlotte; … - 2013

Two participants have to decide jointly, with the discussions preceding their choice being video/audiotaped. For two tasks, one with and one without strategic interaction, we refer to obvious reasoning styles as mental models. The videotaped discussions are analyzed according to which mental...

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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

Being a "jack-of-all-trades" increases the probability of running an entrepreneurial venture successfully; but what happens to "jack-of-few-trades" who lack sufficient skills? This paper investigates a possible compensation mechanism between balanced skills and cities, and how this compensatory...

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Disentangling the R&D shortfall of the EU vis-á-vis the US

Erken, Hugo (contributor); Es, Frank van (contributor) - 2007

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Cultural effects on inbound tourism into the USA : a gravity approach

Vietze, Christoph (contributor) - 2008

In this paper we discuss the effects of cultural and particular religious factors on tourist flows into the USA as the … variables, people from countries with the same language (English) and the same high governmental rankings like the USA, travel … more into the USA for holiday than people from other countries. Above all, we have clear and stable evidence that tourists …

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EU-US differences in the size of R&D intensive firms : do they explain the overall R&D intensity gap?

Ortega-Argilés, Raquel (contributor); … - 2008

The average firm size of the top R&D investors among US-based companies is smaller than that of the EU-based firms. Does this help to explain why the US has a greater R&D intensity, or is the higher firm size in the EU, just as its lower R&D intensity, determined by the sectors in which the top...

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Penetrating the knowledge filter in the rust belt

Acs, Zoltán J. (contributor); … - 2007

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The knowledge filter, entrepreneurship, and economic growth

Carlsson, Bo; Acs, Zoltán J.; Audretsch, David B.; … - 2007

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