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Knowledge Production in Nanomaterials: An Application of Spatial Filtering to Regional Systems of Innovation

Patuelli, Roberto; Grimpe, Christoph - 2008

Nanomaterials are seen as a key technology for the 21st Century, and much is expected of them in terms of innovation and economic growth. They could open the way to many radically new applications, which would form the basis of innovative products. In this context, it seems all the more...

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Firm Level Implications of Early Stage Venture Capital Investment: An Empirical Investigation

Keilbach, Max; Engel, Dirk - 2002

The paper analyses the impact of venture capital finance on growth and innovation activities of young German firms. Among other variables, our panel of firm data includes data on venture capital funding and patent applications. With a statistical matching procedure we draw an adequate control...

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A Test of the 'Krugman Hypothesis' for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003

large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment … in Germany increased (unlike in the U.S. and Britain, where it fell). British and German evidence is further backed up … with alternative data sets for these countries. I find evidence for the Krugman hypothesis when Germany is compared to the …

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The Birth of German Biotechnology Industry: Did Venture Capital run the Show?

Heneric, Oliver; Engel, Dirk; Champenois, Claire - 2004

corporate investors) in the emergence of a new biotechnology industry in Germany in the second half of the 90?s. This analysis …

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Concubinage or Marriage? Informal and Formal Cooperations for Innovation

Keilbach, Max; Bönte, Werner - 2004

Based on a sample of German innovating firms that contains information on formal and informal innovation cooperation between customers and suppliers, we state that firms perceive informal cooperation as being more important than formal cooperation modes. We then investigate the determinants of...

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Bankruptcy and Voluntary Liquidation: Evidence for New Firms in East and West Germany after Unification

Prantl, Susanne - 2003

: entrepreneurial self-selection via voluntary liquidation and external selection based on insolvency regulation. Distinguishing between … and West Germany, I find distinct education and size effects and a higher share of bankruptcy-related liquidations in East … Germany. These results are argued to reflect different industry structures, capital and labor market conditions in both parts …

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Stepping In and Out of the International Market: Internationalisation of Technology-Oriented Firms in Germany and the UK

Fryges, Helmut - 2004

For small high-tech firms international orientation is regarded as crucial for growth and long-term survival. Even newly founded technology based firms (NTBFs) are often internationally active shortly after their inception (?born globals?). However, in order to create jobs and have a sustainable...

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