indicate that online participation is not significantly affected by sector affiliation, affiliation to East or West Germany nor …

relationship using panel data on German start-up firms as well as German patent data. It employs different indicators of patenting … activity. By applying fixed-effects and first-differencing panel data methods it is shown that patenting activity has a …

This paper presents for the first time panel evidence on the productivity effects of training intensity and different … training forms in Germany. It hereby takes account of selectivity of training activities, unobserved heterogeneity of … establishments as well as omitted variable bias. Using the waves 1997 – 2000 of the IAB establishment panel, it is found that when …

. Among other variables, our panel of firm data includes data on venture capital funding and patent applications. With a …

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

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 … of Germany. …

The paper tests empirically the role of knowledge stocks to explain the regional distribution of Germany …