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Determinanten regionaler Unterschiede in der Gründungshäufigkeit wissensintensiver Dienstleister
Almus, Matthias; Egeln, Jürgen; Engel, Dirk - 1999
Dem Neugründungsgeschehen in Dienstleistungsbranchen wird oft zugeschrieben, dass es einen wesentlichen Beitrag zum Strukturwandel zu einer wissensorientierten Wirtschaft leistet. Die hier vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die regionstypenspezifischen Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten im...
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Regional public research, higher education, and innovative start-ups : an empirical investigation
Aamoucke, Ronney; Fritsch, Michael - 2013
Based on detailed information about the regional knowledge base, particularly about universities, we find that regional public research and education have a strong positive impact on new business formation in innovative industries but not in industries classified as non-innovative. Measures for...
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Determinanten regionaler Unterschiede in der Gründungshäufigkeit wissensintensiver Dienstleister
Almus, Matthias; Egeln, Jürgen; Engel, Dirk - 1999
Dem Neugründungsgeschehen in Dienstleistungsbranchen wird oft zugeschrieben, dass es einen wesentlichen Beitrag zum Strukturwandel zu einer wissensorientierten Wirtschaft leistet. Die hier vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die regionstypenspezifischen Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten im...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442644
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Fields of knowledge, types of higher education institutions, and innovative start-ups : an empirical investigation
Aamoucke, Ronney; Fritsch, Michael - 2014
We investigate the role played by different fields of academic knowledge and various types of higher education institutions in the emergence of innovative start-ups in a region. We show that education and research in the applied and natural sciences have the strongest effect on the emergence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342539
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Regional knowledge, entrepreneurial culture and innovative start-ups over time and space : an empirical investigation
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2018
We investigate the role of entrepreneurship culture and the historical knowledge base of a region on current levels of new business formation in innovative industries. The analysis is for German regions and covers the time period 1907-2014. We find a pronounced positive relationship between high...
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Innovation and location in German knowledge intensive business service firms
Brunow, Stephan; Hammer-Langrock, Andrea; McCann, Philip - 2017
Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) are widely perceived as being important drivers of technological progress … and innovation. KIBS are generally understood as depending, driving and thriving on knowledge exchanges and therefore … paper investigates how the innovation performance and processes of KIBS firms are related to their distance from the nearest …
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Local User-Producer Interaction in Innovation and Export Performance of Firms
Rammer, Christian; Beise, Marian - 2003
There is ample evidence that user-producer interaction is an important factor for successful innovations. It is often claimed that user-producer interaction is most effcient in close proximity. On the other hand, innovations are a major determinant for the export performance of firms. Does this...
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ICT, Innovation and Business Performance in Services: Evidence for Germany and the Netherlands
van der Wiel, Henry; van Leeuwen, George; Hempell, Thomas - 2004
Using panel data for German and Dutch firms from the services sector, this paper analyses the importance of ICT capital deepening and innovation for productivity. We employ a model that takes into account that innovation and ICT use may be complementary. The results show that the contribution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297322
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Stepping In and Out of the International Market: Internationalisation of Technology-Oriented Firms in Germany and the UK
Fryges, Helmut - 2004
For small high-tech firms international orientation is regarded as crucial for growth and long-term survival. Even newly founded technology based firms (NTBFs) are often internationally active shortly after their inception (?born globals?). However, in order to create jobs and have a sustainable...
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Innovation and Information Technology in Services
Licht, Georg; Moch, Dietmar - 1997
The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by various recent papers (e.g. Oliner and Sichels 1994, Landauer 1995, Brynjolfsson and Hitt 1996). Several explanations are given for this missing link. Our paper deals with two...
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