The paper tests empirically the role of knowledge stocks to explain the regional distribution of Germany?s biotechnology founders. We present an unique approach to highlight the role of knowledge spillovers as we differentiate according the local embeddedness and research affinity of founders....

Die Situation der Agrarfakultät wird in den letzten Jahren an allen betroffen Hochschulstandorten diskutiert. In seinem Gutachten fordert der Wissenschaftsrat stärkere Clusterbildungen, die Zukunft kleinerer Fakultäten wird in Frage gestellt. Der Fakultät für Agrarwissenschaften der...

This paper contributes with empirical findings to European co-inventorship location and geographical coincidence of co-patenting networks. Based on EPO co-patenting information for the reference period 2000-2004, we analyze the spatial con figuration of 44 technology-specific co-inventorship...

Decreasing number of students in Germany lead to the closures of schools due to lack of utilization. Hence, competition between schools will increase. We use a mixed multinomial logit model in order to identify influencing factors of school choice and to regard realistic substitution patterns...

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...

This paper investigates the factors that explain the level and dynamics of manufacturing firm productive efficiency. In our empirical analysis, we use a unique sample of about 39,000 firms in 256 industries from the German Cost Structure Census over the years 1992-2005. We estimate the...

During its early and formative years, the U.S. tire industry was heavily concentrated around Akron, Ohio. We test the extent to which entrants in Ohio were attracted to the Akron area by agglomeration benefits, contributing to a self-reinforcing process envisioned in many modern theories of...