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Networks and innovation: the role of social assets in explaining firms' innovative capacity
Cantner, Uwe; Conti, Elisa; Meder, Andreas - 2009
The claim of a positive association between a firm’s social assets and its inno-vative capacity is a widely debated topic in the literature. Although controversial, such an argument has informed recent innovation policy across Germany, increasingly di-rected to cluster formation. In the light...
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Building Up Social Capital in a Changing World: A Network Approach
Vega-Redondo, Fernando - 2003
This paper models the dynamic process through which a large society may succeed in building up its "social capital" by establishing a stable and dense pattern of interaction among its members. In the model, agents interact according to a collection of infinitely repeated Prisoner's Dilemmas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325082
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Academic entrepreneurship in a resource contrained environment: Diversification and synergistic effects
de Silva, L. Ranmuthumalie; Uyrarra, Elvira; Oakey, Ray - 2011
This paper investigates the nature of academic entrepreneurial engagement in a resource constrained environment. In addition to context-specific contributions, the paper adds originality to the academic entrepreneurship literature by discussing diversification strategies adopted by academic...
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Zur theoretischen Bedeutung sozialer und organisatorischer Netzwerke im Gründungsprozess wissensintensiver Unternehmen
Stahlecker, Thomas - 2008
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The old-boy network and the quality of entrepreneurs
Bac, Mehmet; Inci, Eren - 2010
We study a model of network formation and start-up financing with endogenous entrepreneurial type distribution. A hub firm admits members to its network based on signals about entrepreneurs' types. Network membership is observable, which allows lenders to offer different interest rates to...
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The global entrepreneurship index (GEINDEX)
Ács, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László - 2009
This paper constructs a Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEINDEX) that captures the contextual feature of entrepreneurship across countries. We find the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development to be mildly S-shaped not U-shaped or L-shaped. Our findings suggest moving away...
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The survival and growth of 'adolescent' high-tech firms in Germany and the UK, 1997-2003
Cowling, Marc; Fryges, Helmut; Licht, Georg; Murray, Gordon - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010527506
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Social capital, transition in agriculture, and economic organisation: a theoretical perspective
Valentinov, Vladislav - 2003
Sozialkapital wird definiert als geteiltes Wissen, Vertrauen und gemeinsame Kultur, eingebettet in Netzwerkstrukturen … und andere stabile Beziehungen zwischen Agenten. Es hat sich gezeigt, dass Sozialkapital schwieriger aufzubauen ist als … ökonomisches Kapital und dass es größere Auswirkungen auf die Gemeinschaft als Ganzes hat. Die Relevanz des Sozialkapital …
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Vertrauen und Sozialkapital an einer wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität der Bundeswehr München und in Deutschland: Eine empirische Studie
Sell, Friedrich L.; Reidelhuber, Martin - 2007
Grundlagen der (auch) in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften verwendeten Begriffe "Vertrauen" and "Sozialkapital" erarbeitet, um …" und "Sozialkapital". Zweitens hat sich ergeben, dass beide Untersuchungsgruppen systematisch (mehr oder weniger abstrakten …
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