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Music in the Air: Estimating the Social Return to Cultural Amenities
Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan; … - 2015
If being around smart people makes us smarter and more productive, what can regions do to attract smart people? This paper considers endogenous cultural amenities as a location factor for high-skilled workers. To overcome selection in the provision of cultural amenities, we exploit the variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010480834
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Music in the Air: Estimating the Social Return to Cultural Amenities
Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan; … - CESifo - 2015
If being around smart people makes us smarter and more productive, what can regions do to attract smart people? This paper considers endogenous cultural amenities as a location factor for high-skilled workers. To overcome selection in the provision of cultural amenities, we exploit the variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011155376
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Music in the air : estimating the social return to cultural amenities
Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan; … - 2015
If being around smart people makes us smarter and more productive, what can regions do to attract smart people? This paper considers endogenous cultural amenities as a location factor for high-skilled workers. To overcome selection in the provision of cultural amenities, we exploit the variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010476682
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Music in the Air : Estimating the Social Return to Cultural Amenities
Falck, Oliver - 2020
If being around smart people makes us smarter and more productive, what can regions do to attract smart people? This paper considers endogenous cultural amenities as a location factor for high-skilled workers. To overcome selection in the provision of cultural amenities, we exploit the variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012856352
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Who Starts with Open Source? Institutional Choice of Start-Ups in the German ICT Sector
Fritsch, Michael; Engelhardt, Sebastian von - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We analyze the characteristics of new businesses in the German ICT industry, distinguishing them based on their choice between two IPR regimes: open source software (OSS) or closed source software (CSS). The share of new firms with an OSS-based business model has increased considerably over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511326
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The Role of Regional KnowledgeSources for Innovation -An Empirical Assessment
Fritsch, Michael; Slavtchev, Viktor - 2005
We investigate the contribution of different inputs, particularly different knowledge sources,on regional patenting output in the framework of a knowledge production function. Theknowledge sources included are R&D employment, size of public research institutions byfield of research (budget),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864223
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What determines the efficiency of regional innovation systems?
Fritsch, Michael; Slavtchev, Viktor - 2007
We assess the efficiency of regional innovation systems (RIS) in Germany by means of a knowledge production function. This function relates private sector research and development (R&D) activity in a region to the number of inventions that have been registered by residents of that region....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263783
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Industry specialization, diversity and the efficiency of regional innovation systems
Fritsch, Michael; Slavtchev, Viktor - 2007
Innovation processes are characterized by a pronounced division of labor between actors. Two types of externality may arise from such interactions. On the one hand, a close location of actors affiliated to the same industry may stimulate innovation (MAR externalities). On the other hand, new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263793
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How does industry specialization affect the efficiency of regional innovation systems?
Fritsch, Michael; Slavtchev, Viktor - 2008
This study analyzes the relationship between the specialization of a region in certain industries and the efficiency of the region in generating new knowledge. The efficiency measure is constructed by relating regional R&D input and output. An inversely u-shaped relationship is found between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263890
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What Determines the Innovative Success of Subsidized Collaborative R&D Projects? – Project-Level Evidence from Germany –
Schwartz, Michael; Peglow, Francois; Fritsch, Michael; … - 2010
the innovative success of R&D cooperation projects and project characteristics. Patent applications and publications are … patent applications, but not to publications. Conversely, university involvement has positive effects on project outcomes in … terms of publications but not in terms of patent applications. In general, projects' funding is an important predictor of …
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