Art und Umfang der Finanzberichterstattung von Unternehmen über ihre kooperativen Aktivitäten sind umstritten - anekdotische Evidenz und rechnungslegungstheoretische Betrachtungen attestieren mitunter eine zu geringe Transparenz. Um diese Kritik einer empirischen Untersuchung zuführen zu...

Understanding the way in which knowledge is technically produced and transferred, and how its diffusion path can be characterized is of fundamental importance for the performance of an economy. Although this fact seems to be plausible ex ante, the relevant literature so far has paid less...

Die im Rahmen des vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) geförderten Projektes KompNet2011 - Erfolgsfaktoren regionaler Innovationsnetze - durchgeführte Befragung untersucht die Innovationskooperationen sowie Wissenstransferaktivitäten von schwerpunktmäßig kleinen und...

We conjecture that the mobility of academic scientists increases the propensity of such agents to engage in academic entrepreneurship. Our empirical analysis is based on a survey of researchers at the Max Planck Society in Germany. We find that mobile scientists are more likely to become nascent...

In this study we investigate the factors that shape the attitudes of scientists toward starting their own business or working in a private sector firm. The analysis is based on data collected from scientists working in the German Max Planck Society, a research institution devoted to basic...

This paper investigates whether knowledge transferred from different sources matter differently for carrying out different innovation outcomes, using a firm-level dataset collected in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) in China. It also investigates whether companies in the PRD in China tend to...

The impact of universities on the economic wellbeing and innovative potential of regions has been the object of intense scholarly and policy interest in the last years. Despite this interest, a clear picture is missing in relation to the roles universities are seen to play, the benefits of HEI...

Die wissensbasierte und -intensive Ökonomie hat eine neue Positionierung von Hochschulen im "knowledge triangle" bewirkt, wobei das regionale Umfeld als Aktionsraum an Bedeutung gewonnen hat. Ausgehend von einem allgemeinen Governance-Verständnis wird die regionale Governance von...