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We investigate the stability of cooperative relationships between inventors and consequences for the characteristics and patent productivity of the respective regional innovation systems (RIS). The empirical analysis is for nine German regions over a period of 15 years. We find a rather high...
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sector. Changes in demand are conducive to new firm formation while a high level of unemployment in a region obviously …
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two growth regimes are immense and clearly demonstrate the relevance of region specific factors. …
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We investigate regional differences in the level and the development of regional new business formation activity. There is a pronounced variance of start-up rates across the regions. The level of regional new firm formation is rather path-dependent so that changes are relatively small. The main...
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. 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. Different measures and estimation approaches lead to rather similar … institutions have a positive effect on the efficiency of private sector R&D in the respective region. It is not the mere presence …
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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...
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We analyze information and knowledge transfer in a sample of 16 German regional innovation networks with almost 300 firms and research organizations involved. The results indicate that strong ties are more beneficial for the exchange of knowledge and information than weak ties. Moreover, our...
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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 …
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We investigate the persistence of levels of self-employment and new business formation in different time periods and under different framework conditions. The analysis shows that high levels of regional self-employment and new business formation tend to be persistent for periods as long as 80...
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While a market economy seeks equilibrium, a knowledge-based economy may upset this tendency towards stabilization by adding the feedback of globalization. The interaction among the three subdynamics of economic exchange, technological innovation, and institutional control can be captured with a...
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