Die Nutzung des in öffentlichen Forschungseinrichtungen vorhandenen Wissens kann für Innovationsprozesse privater Unternehmen von wesentlicher Bedeutung sein. Kooperationsbeziehungen zwischen Unternehmen und Forschungseinrichtungen stellen ein wesentliches Medium zum Transfer dieses Wissens...

We apply a multi-level approach to analyze simultaneously the effects of three groups of determinants on new firm formation: industry, location and change over time. The data is for West Germany and covers the 1983-97 period. Our analysis indicates that innovation activities and the...

Studies for established market economies such as West Germany (Fritsch and Mueller, 2007), and Sweden (Andersson and Koster, 2011) have shown that regional start-up rates tend to show a relatively high level of persistence and path dependency over periods of 10-15 years. One main reason for this...

We analyze the sources of the rise in the levels of self-employment in Germany since reunification by applying the non-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique. This analysis is performed separately for East and West Germany in order to account for the East German recovery of...