Internationale Standortrankings sind in jüngerer Zeit zunehmend in die wissenschaftliche Kritik geraten. Sebastian Gundel und Ulrich van Suntum analysieren im Folgenden, inwieweit eine kritische Studie zum Länderranking von Ullrich Heilemann, Harald Lehmann und Joachim Ragnitz ihrem...

The paper provides an outline of the concept of regional growth regimes and empirically illustrates the relevance of the concept. The empirical examples are entrepreneurship, entry and the performance of new businesses in East and West Germany. The differences of the factors determining the...

New firm location decisions, relative to incumbents may be based on a choice between two types of advantages: natural advantages or those that arise from social embeddedness, the latter of which may particularly include knowledge spillovers. We analyze the relative importance of geographically...

New firm location decisions, relative to incumbents may be based on a choice between two types of advantages: natural advantages or those that arise from social embeddedness, the latter of which may particularly include knowledge spillovers. We analyze the relative importance of geographically...

Ziel der vorliegenden Studie ist es, die bisherigen Anstrengungen und Entwicklungen im Freistaat Sachsen im Bereich der Industriellen (Weißen) Biotechnologie (IBT) zu evaluieren. Hierzu werden der aktuelle Stand der technologischen Entwicklungen analysiert, die Technologie- und Anwendungsfelder...