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Habakkuk revisited : a history friendly model of "American and British technology in the nineteenth century"

Fontana, Roberto (contributor); Guerzoni, Marco (contributor) - 2008

This paper presents a History Friendly Model which addresses the issue of the bifurcation in technological stylesʺ …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003766011

Incumbent innovation and entry by spinoff

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2008

This paper takes a different perspective toward the escape entry incentive of incumbent firms to innovate. New entrants …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796315

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824122

High-tech immigrant entrepreneurship in the U.S.

Hart, David M.; Acs, Zoltán J.; Tracy, Spencer - 2009

In this study, we quantify the role of foreign-born founders in high-tech entrepreneurship in a nationally representative sample of rapidly growing "high-impact" companies. This class of companies drives job creation and aggregate growth in the U.S. We find that, while most previous studies have...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003887158

Policy induced innovation networks : the case of the German "Leading-Edge Cluster competition"

Cantner, Uwe; Graf, Holger; Hinzmann, Susanne - 2013

-year period with up to 40 million Euro each. Our paper presents selected results regarding the influence of government funding on …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009702927

Works councils, training activities and innovation : a study of German firms

Cantner, Uwe; Gerstlberger, Wolfgang; Roy, Ipsita - 2014

Building on the notion of general and specific human capital proposed by Becker (1962), the paper highlights the … establishment data on various aspects of training practices and innovation activities in Germany, the paper examines the degree … training rather than in firm-specific technical training of employees. In addition, the paper finds strong support for using …

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Preferential attachment and pattern formation in R&D networks : plausible explanation or just a widespread myth?

Fritsch, Michael; Kudic, Muhamed - 2016

The emergence and solidification of network patterns is typically explained by the preferential attachment rule. The underlying logic is that a small number of actors which are characterized by an above average degree attract links at a higher rate than others. We raise the question as to what...

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The role of geographical proximity for project performance : evidence from the German "Leading-Edge Cluster Competition"

Cantner, Uwe; Graf, Holger; Hinzmann, Susanne - 2015

performance of these linkages. In this paper we address this underexplored issue and aim to complement the rare examples of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446102

Local Innovation Systems and Benchmarking

Cantner, Uwe (contributor) - 2008

This paper reviews approaches used for evaluating the performance of local or regional innovation systems. This …

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The fluidity of inventor networks

Fritsch, Michael; Zöllner, Moritz - 2017

We investigate the stability of cooperative relationships between inventors and consequences for the characteristics and patent productivity of the respective regional innovation systems (RIS). The empirical analysis is for nine German regions over a period of 15 years. We find a rather high...

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