In the last two decades, University-Industry Relationships have played an outstanding role in shaping innovation activities in Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals. Despite the growing importance and the considerable scope of these relationships, there still is an intensive and open debate on their...

In this paper the relationship between firm growth and external knowledge sources, such as related firms and universities, is studied. The spatial characteristics of these relationships are examined by geolocating firms into a more realistic relational space using travel time distances and using...

Trotz eines wachsenden Forschungsinteresses gibt es bisher wenige Erkenntnisse zu dem Kontext, in dem junge Unternehmen lernen. Der Zusammenhang zwischen Lernen und der Schutzfähigkeit technologischer Ressourcen wird anhand 72 akademischer Ausgründungen empirisch getestet. Die Ergebnisse...