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The Impact of Public Research Contracts on Scientific Productivity

Alonso-Borrego, Cesar - 2016

We analyze a competitive research-oriented public program established in Spain, the Ramon y Cajal Program, intended to offer contracts in public research centers to high-quality researchers. We study the effects of the Program on the ex-post scientific productivity of its recipients, relative to...

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What’s the difference?! : gender, personality, and the propensity to start a business

Furdas, Marina; Kohn, Karsten - 2010

one third. We scrutinize this gender gap using individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large … models and employing decomposition techniques, we find that gender differences in socio-demographics alone would even be in … start-ups among women and explains about one third of the entire gender difference. Most substantially, men opt for a start …

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R&D subsidies to start-ups : effective drivers of patent activity and employment growth?

Cantner, Uwe; Kösters, Sarah - 2009

The present paper investigates the effectiveness of R&D subsidies given to start-ups. Taking an aggregate view rather than evaluating a single program, we estimate the impact of R&D subsidies on start-ups’ employment growth and their patent output. A unique data set on start-ups in the East...

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Does the geographic clustering of universities promote their scientific research performance? : evidence from China

Chu, Shuai; Wu, Mengfei - 2021

The fundamental purpose of university geographic clustering is to gather resources through "agglomeration" to improve the performance of higher education and scientific research. However, it has been debated whether university clusters can achieve the latter goal. With the help of the...

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Cooperation with public research institutions and success in innovation : evidence from France and Germany

Robin, Stéphane; Schubert, Torben - 2010

We evaluate the impact of cooperation with public research institutions on firms' inno-vative activities in France and Germany, using data from the fourth Community Innova-tion Survey (CIS4). We propose an original econometric methodology, which explicitly takes into account potential estimation...

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Heterogeneous regional university funding and firm innovation : an empirical analysis of the German excellence initiative

Krieger, Bastian - 2023

This paper estimates the effect of heterogeneous university funding stemming from the German Excellence Initiative on a regional firm’s probability to innovate by using a multi-valued two-way fixed effects difference-in-differences model. The estimations show that funding an additional...

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More publicly funded research, more knowledge spillovers, more economic growth? : an empirical analysis for German regions

Eberle, Jonathan; Brenner, Thomas; Mitze, Timo - 2018

This paper deals with the effects of publicly funded research on regional technological progress and economic growth. We adopt a system approach and investigate the effects on all regional input factors and output by means of a flexible spatial panel VAR (SpPVAR) model. This allows us to deal...

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A control group study of incubators’ impact to promote firm survival

Schwartz, Michael - 2010

TGZ in Deutschland. Hierzu werden die Entwicklungspfade von 371 ehemals durch TGZ geförderten Unternehmen und von 371 …

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Entrepreneurial success and subjective well-being : worries about the business explain one's well-being loss from self-employment

Binder, Martin - 2017

Despite lower incomes the self-employed often report higher job satisfaction. But this increased job satisfaction only sometimes translates into higher life satisfaction, likely due to the heterogeneous nature of self-employment. By distinguishingdifferent types of self-employment, this paper...

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Historical roots of entrepreneurial culture and innovation activity : an analysis for German regions

Fritsch, Michael; Obschonka, Martin; Wyrwich, Michael - 2018

There is a research gap with respect to understanding the role of entrepreneurial culture and tradition for actual start-up behaviour. We combine historical self-employment data (entrepreneurial tradition) with a psychological measure for entrepreneurial attitudes (entrepreneurial culture). The...

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