Der Beitrag untersucht, inwieweit es durch eine Förderung mittels Technologieund Gründerzentren (TGZ) gelingt, Unternehmen beim Aufbau von Kooperationsbeziehungen zu unterstützen. Im Rahmen einer Querschnittsuntersuchung wird sowohl die Vernetzung der Unternehmen innerhalb der Zentren als...

Basierend auf einer Datenbasis von insgesamt 149 ehemalig durch Technologie- und Gründerzentren geförderten Unternehmen wird untersucht, inwiefern ein Zusammenhang zwischen der Aufenthaltsdauer der Unternehmen in den Zentren sowie dem Betriebsalter der Zentren und der langfristigen...

On the basis of a sample of 149 graduate firms from five German technology oriented business incubators, this article contributes to incubator/incubation literature by investigating the effects of the age of the business incubators and the firms' incubation time in securing longterm survival of...

In Germany, a growing tendency can be observed to focus business incubators (BIs) and technology centers and their respective support elements and processes as well as the selection criteria applied by the incubator management on firms from solely one sector or few but complementary sectors and...

This study investigates predictors of scientists' intentions to commercialize their research through business founding. Analyzing a cross-sectional sample of 496 German scientists, we develop and test an intentions-based model of academic entrepreneurship combining personal and contextual...

Promoting Business Incubators (BI) in Universities can go a long way in promoting entrepreneurial opportunities for students, graduates, faculty members and researchers. Also, this may give an opportunity for other private enterprises/ entrepreneurs to set up an enterprise utilising patented...

This study investigates predictors of scientists’ intentions to commercialize their research through business founding. Analyzing a cross-sectional sample of 496 German scientists, we develop and test an intentions-based model of academic entrepreneurship combining personal and contextual...

Among contemporary economists, Mariana Mazzucato stands out for her emphasis on the importance of innovation to solve pressing challenges and achieve a greater quality of life. However, the type of mission-oriented innovation policies she promotes usually rely on an overly mechanical view of...

This paper introduces a new type of R&D subsidy, which is conditional on the success of the R&D project. In a threestage model, the government chooses a subsidy(ies) in the first stage; in the second stage, a monopolist chooses R&D effort which determines the size or the probability of success of...

This paper integrates findings from several different case studies on Mission-Oriented Innovation Policies (MOIPs) and makes use of existing literature to briefly describe three other missions: The War on Cancer, homeownership in the United States, and the Swedish Million Program. Together with...