R&D collaboration facilitates pooling of complementary skills, learning from the partner as well as sharing risks and costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance. Fewer studies addressed potential drawbacks of...

R&D collaboration facilitates pooling of complementary skills, learning from the partner as well as sharing risks and costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance. Collaboration, however, involves transaction costs...

Unternehmensgründungen gelten als Träger der Beschäftigungsexpansion. Diese Wahrnehmung stützt sich auf eine breite Palette empirischer Erkenntnisse, theoretische Erklärungsansätze existieren aber nur vereinzelt. Der Autor entwickelt Bausteine zu einer solchen, mit der Empirie zu...