plants in Germany and, if so, in which direction. Hence, we aim at contributing to the still sparse empirical studies in this … regional agglomeration effects for Germany. Second, while earlier papers looked only at few sectors of the economy or only at …

seems warranted. With specific regard to Germany, it is not clear how long the Shadow of Death is and which influence can be … plants in terms of employment change and to this use a comprehensive data set that covers the whole of Germany and contains …

innovation and productivity and firms tend to decline in sales and employment. …

. Among the plant-specific characteristics, it is mainly plant size, exporting behaviour and R&D / innovation activities that …

regional innovation systems and international knowledge flow by using trade data on openness. The study distinguishes between …

European countries comprised in the EFIGE dataset (Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, henceforth … calculated at firm level by Bruegel for 2008 by employing the Levinsohn and Petrin (2003) approach. The empirical setting we …

A review of the types of Innovation System identified in the literature points to different models. Besides the very … well-known National, Regional, Local, sectorial, and technological innovation systems, combinations of the previous can be … identified, proposing sub-models such as National Open Innovation Systems, Regional Open Innovation System, as well as Regional …