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This paper reviews the empirical evidence concerning the regional emergence of innovative new businesses. It is argued that analyses using aggregate data that focus on the regional level and do not account for career patterns of innovative founders are of limited value in guiding policy that is...
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reforms that would likely increase the rate of innovation and the number of startups due to immigrants in the country. Key …
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largest sector of the country's economy. Different types of service innovation processes are identified: R&D-based, practice …/or innovation, and may be used with variable frequency. In a survey of 300 Swiss service companies, it was shown that innovative … service companies use service-specific innovation processes and methods more frequently, which can increase the profit share …
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generalists and specialists to possess skill variety. Third, we test our model empirically using data from Germany and the … that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …
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generalists and specialists to possess skill variety. Third, we test our model empirically using data from Germany and the … being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates the …
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We describe Germany's rise as an industrial power in the late 19th century through radical innovation and … miracle, was nevertheless a period during which innovation slowed down - a somewhat surprising conclusion, but consistent with … innovation indicators, and offer four broad, interrelated explanations in a historical context: (i) the innovation system is …
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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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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...
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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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Established firms often face significant obstacles to innovation. As a solution, it has been suggested to form … monitored by their corporate sponsors, resulting in less favorable conditions for radical innovation. -- Corporate … entrepreneurship ; start-ups ; radical innovation …
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