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The deep historical roots of industrial culture and regional entrepreneurship : a case study of two regions
Fritsch, Michael; Greve, Maria; Wyrwich, Michael - 2022
special focus on entrepreneurship and innovation. South Saxony has a long history of self-employment and knowledge generation … that results in a persistent culture of innovative entrepreneurship. In Mecklenburg, such a culture did never emerge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471888
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Intellectual Property Rights and the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship
Acs, Zoltan J.; Sanders, Mark - School of Economics, Universiteit Utrecht - 2008
generate new knowledge. This has a positive impact on entrepreneurship and innovation. However, after some point, further … strengthening patent protection will reduce the returns to entrepreneurship sufficiently to reduce overall economic growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040860
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The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Latinamerican Scoreborard: The impact of University-Industry Cooperation in Ecuador
Massón-Guerra, José Luis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
of the innovation and entrepreneurship in Latin-American Countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836495
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Intellectual Property Rights and the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship
Acs, Zoltan J.; Sanders, Mark - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
generate new knowledge. This has a positive impact on entrepreneurship and innovation. However, after some point, further … strengthening patent protection will reduce the returns to entrepreneurship sufficiently to reduce overall economic growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090472
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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship and Foreign Direct Investment
Acs, Zoltan J.; Brooksbank, David J.; O'Gorman, Colm; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
We explore if the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship, applied to FDI, provides at least a partial … explanation for the greater emergence of recent knowledge-based entrepreneurship in Ireland compared with Wales. In order to … examine how FDI and entrepreneurship policy in these two regions might have influenced the levels of knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090523
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Penetrating the Knowledge Filter in the Rust Belt
Acs, Zoltan; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new knowledge and economically useful knowledge. It identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090542
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Demography and Innovative Entrepreneurship
Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090571
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Penetrating the Knowledge Filter in "Rust Belt" Economies
Acs, Zoltan; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new generic knowledge and economically-useful knowledge. It identifies both the formation of new ventures and the absorptive capacity of incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090606
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The global entrepreneurship index (GEINDEX)
Ács, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper constructs a Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEINDEX) that captures the contextual feature of … entrepreneurship across countries. We find the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development to be mildly S-shaped not … U-shaped or L-shaped. Our findings suggest moving away from simple measures of entrepreneurship across countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032006
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Do entrants increase incumbents' innovation activity? Escaping the lock-in, stimulating technological change and the transition towards environmentally friendly vehicles
Diekhof, Josefine - In: Journal of Innovation Economics n°16 (2015) 1, pp. 101-137
In the context of technological transitions, the influence of innovative entrants on incumbents is a major driving force. Using worldwide patent data, the present study analyzes this influence for the case of the transition from combustion engine vehicles towards electrically powered alternative...
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