This article studies entrepreneurial activities emerging out of one of Germany's most prominent dot.com firms: Intershop, a maker of e-commerce software. We show that Intershop spawned at least 30 spin-offs. The majority entered locally, giving rise to a small but growing software cluster and...

We experimentally test the effect of enforceable non-compete clauses on working efforts. The employee can invest into the probability of making a profitable innovation. After a successful innovation (Win) the employee may want to leave the firm (Shift) whereas after an innovation failure (Lose)...

We experimentally test the effect of enforceable non-compete clauses on working efforts. The employee can invest into the probability of making a profitable innovation. After a successful innovation (Win) the employee may want to leave the firm (Shift) whereas after an innovation failure (Lose)...

Untersucht wurden räumliche Implikationen der zunehmenden Drittmittelorientierung in der Deutschen Wissenschaftspolitik seit Ende der 1990er Jahre. Die empirischen Ergebnisse legen nahe, dass jenseits der Faktoren, die den Förderumfang aus den unmittelbaren Förderzielen der Drittmittelgeber...