industry and from industry to science in the biotechnology sector. In order to model these knowledge flows a citation analysis …

corporate investors) in the emergence of a new biotechnology industry in Germany in the second half of the 90?s. This analysis … takes into account the different business models and business fields to be found in the biotechnology industry. Based on … theoretical arguments, a great relevance of VC-companies in financing young innovative biotechnology firms developing health care …

Regions with biotechnology-specific knowledge seem to have best chances to attract potential entrepreneurs to establish … a biotechnology-firm. Furthermore, regional oriented technology policy is supposed to stimulate the creation process of … biotechnology clusters, too. The BioRegio contest (BRC) is the most prominent example for this kind of policy support. The analysis …

The German biotechnology industry missed the accession of this key technology in the 1980s. Policy makers make … biotech industry in Germany. We assume that R&D policy was driven blind by the idea to catch up with world?s biotech leaders … and analyse if Germany?s R&D policy lost its origins. We do examine, if Germany sacrifice economic funding principles, in …

The paper tests empirically the role of knowledge stocks to explain the regional distribution of Germany …?s biotechnology founders. We present an unique approach to highlight the role of knowledge spillovers as we differentiate according …

British biotechnology companies we have identified all patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO). Applying hazard rate …

the innovating firm invests in marketing, so that consumers become aware of the newly developed product. Firms first … theoretical model are that both the marketing of a product innovation and a firm?s propensity to introduce an innovation decrease … a positive effect on product innovation and marketing effort. These findings are tested empirically using survey data …

marketing methods. We find that the determinants of a firm?s propensity to introduce technological and non …

SME in Western and East-ern Germany are compared because these regions are very different in their supply of public R … German small and medium?sized firms (SME). Special attention is paid to the role of public R&D subsidies. For this purpose …&D funding. It turns out that Western German SME are financially constrained in their R&D activities by both internal and …