Showing 1 - 10 of 305
This paper examines how university research alliances and other cooperative links with universities contribute to startup employment growth. We argue that “scientific absorptive capacity” at the startup is critical for reaping the benefits from university research alliances, but not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010428152
The importance and contribution of new technology-based Firms (NTBFs) to long term economic development is at the center of a controversial debate. This paper provides an overview of the current status of research on various issues concerning NTBFs in Germany. The issues covered include the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440899
employment growth and postentry innovation activities of the new firm. We focus on start-ups for which a new idea (a new product … terms of post-entry innovation activities. However, we cannot show that corporate spinoffs benefit from the transferred idea … subsequent post-entry innovation activities of corporate spinoffs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010204201
For academic spin-off's I analyze the length of time between the founder's leaving of academia and the establishment of his firm. Technology transfer can take place even years after leaving the mother institution. A duration analysis reveals that a longer time-lag is caused by the necessity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003721816
Umsatzes mit neuen Produkten gemacht. Der Technologietransfer von den öffentlichen Forschungseinrichtungen wird dabei … dem Stichwort regionale High-Tech-Agglomerationen diskutiert wird, nicht auf den Technologietransfer aus. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441735
We use an exogenous change in German Federal law to examine how entrepreneurial support and the ownership of patent rights influence academic entrepreneurship. In 2002, the German Federal Government enacted a major reform called Knowledge Creates Markets that set up new infrastructure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011456680
We examine how the ownership of intellectual property rights influences patenting of university-discovered inventions. In 2002, Germany transferred patent rights from faculty members to their universities. To identify the effect on the volume of patenting, we exploit the researcher-level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472585
client-side innovation. The aim of this paper is to contribute to resolving an empirical puzzle arising from the prior … economics. We hypothesize that the right balance between internal and external knowledge is critical for innovation. The … innovation. For product innovation we find a hump-shape. -- Knowledge Production Function ; Transaction Cost Economics ; Product …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009424071
In the following paragraphs we will discuss the "mapping of innovative clusters in national innovation systems". For … Innovation Survey (which is comparable with CIS data). The Community Innovation Survey (CIS) is an initiative of the EU … innovation systems, highlight the outline conditions for innovations in Germany, focusing above all on the basis of innovations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442326
knowledge spillovers are unmeasurable, a 'goodness of fit' measure is constructed using innovation survey data. It turns out … measures constructed from innovation survey data appear to work reasonably well while measures of the Euclidean technological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443497