In diesem Beitrag untersuchen wir das Standortwahlverhalten der Gründer von Biotech-Unternehmen in Deutschland. Hierzu verwenden wir Individualdaten aus dem ZEW Unternehmenspanel und aggregieren diese auf Ebene der 97 Raumordnungsregionen. Die deskriptiven Befunde geben Hinweise auf eine hohe...

Background: We investigate the relationship between the rate at which new firms are established and regional characteristics and whether this relationship is constant over space or not. The characteristics reflect (i) agglomerations that in turn are related to increasing returns to production...

We test whether new firms locate close to incumbent firms of the same industry. Tendencies to coagglomerate may explain the general wisdom that industry location is highly persistent over time. We perform separate analysis for East and West Germany which enables us to study two integrated areas...