Der hier dokumentierte Workshop hatte sich zum Ziel gesetzt, einige Fälle von Zusammenarbeit auf regionaler Ebene und auf Unternehmensebene zwischen EU-Europa und den Beitrittsländern darzustellen und zu diskutieren. Dem Workshop liegt die Annahme zugrunde, dass innovationsorientierte...

This paper challenges the long-standing emphasis in the developmental state literature on the powerful pilot agency as an essential component of industrialization. While a pilot agency may be able to facilitate growth in mature industries, we argue that policy-makers seeking to promote rapid...

Economists have identified product entry and exit as a key mechanism through which innovation translates into economic growth. In this paper we document how high-skill immigration, under the H-1B visa program, affects product reallocation (entry and exit) at the firm level. We create a new...

Due to the recent drop in oil prices, there is a strong interest in the influence of the shale revolution on the global supply and demand of hydrocarbon fuels. Consequently, the attention of many economists and industry analysts is drawn to the technological, institutional and regulatory aspects...

We employ the “social conditions of innovative enterprise” framework to analyze the key determinants of China’s development path from the economic reforms of 1978 to the present. First, we focus on how government investments in human capabilities and physical infrastructure provided...

With innovation increasingly important to economic development, innovation policy is attracting attention from politicians and policy-makers at all levels. Regional policy-makers face a distinctive challenge in that innovation takes place in international networks reaching far beyond their...

We investigate the stability of cooperative relationships between inventors and consequences for the characteristics and patent productivity of the respective regional innovation systems (RIS). The empirical analysis is for nine German regions over a period of 15 years. We find a rather high...

The development of inventor networks is characterized by the addition of a significant number of new inventors, while a considerable number of incumbent inventors discontinue. We estimate the persistence of knowledge in regional inventor networks using alternative assumptions about knowledge...