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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
effective knowledge exchange between regional actors, the latter are considered to provide regional systems with knowledge … diverse to their knowledge base. Our empirical analysis of 18 German regional innovation networks highlights the importance of … public research organizations for inter-regional knowledge exchange. The broker and gatekeeper function of public research …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003798357
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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 … different indicators for these types of knowledge, the strongest effects are found for the number of professors, followed by the … the regional knowledge stock than the number of students that is most important for the emergence of innovative stat-ups. …
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Fighting maritime piracy : three lessons from Pompeius Magnus
Schubert, Christian; Lades, Leonhard K. - 2012
Piracy in international waters is on the rise again, in particular off the coast of Somalia. While the dynamic game between pirates, ship-owners, insurance firms and the military seems to have reached some kind of equilibrium, piracy risks generating significant negative externalities to third...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534103
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Cluster innovation along the industry lifecycle
Eisingerich, Andreas; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; … - 2008
Industrial clusters develop regionally along the industry's lifecycle and typically exist over many product generations … depth face-to-face interviews in clusters across two continents to examine the drivers of a cluster's innovativeness along … change depending on the stage of a cluster's underlying industry lifecycle. Classifying clusters as either being adolescent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003767908
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The apple doesnt́ fall far from the tree : location of start-ups relative to incumbents
Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - 2009
advantages or those that arise from social embeddedness, the latter of which may particularly include knowledge spillovers. We … decision ; natural advantages ; local knowledge spillovers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796305
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Regional financial system and the financial structure of small firms
Mahagaonkar, Prashanth; Chaudhuri, Swayan - 2009
The capital structure of firms is known to be different not only due to firm characteristics but also to the sources of capital. Therefore, there is a need to understand the supply side effects on a firmś capital structure. A small firmś choice of financing sources may be limited by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003809916
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The effect of new business formation on employment : the dominance of density
Schroeter, Alexandra - 2009
Empirical analyses show that the employment effects of start-ups are highest in agglomerations, whereas moderately congested areas exhibit only modest effects, and weak or even no significant effects could be found in rural regions. This paper will set out to show that these discrepancies arise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003809941
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Creative industries, new business formation and regional economic growth
Piergiovanni, Roberta; Carree, Martin Anthony; … - 2009
The present study explores the impact exerted by a series of factors and processes including creativity, IPR activities, new business formation and the provision of amenities on economic growth for 103 Italian provinces (NUTS 3) over the period between 2001 and 2006. Provincial growth rates are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824198
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Start-ups, long- and short-term survivors and their effect on regional employment growth
Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian - 2009
We investigate the effects that regional start-up activity has on employment in new and in incumbent businesses. The analysis is performed for West German regions over the 1987-2002 period. It shows that the effects of new businesses on employment in the incumbents are significantly positive and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003886846
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Are more start-ups really better? : quantity and quality of new businesses and their effect on regional development
Fritsch, Michael; Schroeter, Alexandra - 2009
Empirical analyses suggest that the employment creating effect of start-ups is highest in regions with a low level of new business formation and that an increase in the regional start-up rate beyond a certain level may lead to negative employment effect. In explaining these results, we assume...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003887125