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Innovation Networks of High Tech SMES: Creation of Knowledge but no Creation of Value

Winters, Rob; Stam, Erik - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper analyses the effects of innovation networks on product and process innovation and sales growth of high … technology SMEs. Innovation net- works are positively related to both product and process innovation, i.e. knowledge creation …. One exception is the negative effect of innovation networks with suppliers on product innovation. Older SMEs are more …

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Determinants influencing the choice of a cooperation partner

Cantner, Uwe; Meder, Andreas - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper provides empirical tests of hypotheses of cooperative behavior provided by evolutionary approaches in the resource-based view of the firm. The influences of "technological proximity", individual incentives to cooperate and managerial tools to the choice of research partner are...

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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...

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Who Starts with Open Source? Institutional Choice of Start-Ups in the German ICT Sector

Fritsch, Michael; Engelhardt, Sebastian von - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

We analyze the characteristics of new businesses in the German ICT industry, distinguishing them based on their choice between two IPR regimes: open source software (OSS) or closed source software (CSS). The share of new firms with an OSS-based business model has increased considerably over the...

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What Economists Know about Open Source Software - Its Basic Principles and Research Results

Engelhardt, Sebastian von - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

For a decade, economists have been fascinated by the phenomenon of open source software (OSS). OSS is marked by free access to the software and its source code. It is developed in a public, collaborative manner by thousands of non-paid volunteers as well as profit seeking firms. Today, OSS is...

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On the Geographic Allocation of Open Source Software Activities

Freytag, Andreas; Engelhardt, Sebastian von; Schulz, … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Open source software (OSS) is marked by free access to the software and its source code. OSS is developed by a 'community' consisting of thousands of contributors from all over the world. Some research was undertaken in order to analyze how global the OSS community actually is, i.e. analyze the...

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Institutions, Culture, and Open Source

Freytag, Andreas; Engelhardt, Sebastian von - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The paper analyzes the impact of institutional and cultural factors on a remarkable economic activity: the production of so-called open source software (OSS). OSS is marked by free access to the software and its source code. Copyright-based OSS licenses permit users to use, change, improve and...

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Quality Competition or Quality Cooperation? License-Type and the Strategic Nature of Open Source vs. Closed Source Business Models

Engelhardt, Sebastian von - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

In the ICT sector, product-software is an important factor for the quality of the products (e.g. cell phones). In this context, open source software enables firms to avoid quality competition as they can cooperate on quality without an explicit contract. The economics of open source (OS) versus...

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The Regional Dimension of Sectoral Innovativeness An Empirical Investigation of Two Specialised Supplier and Two Science-Based Industries

Cantner, Uwe; Bürger, Matthias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The aim of this paper is to test how geographical and technological proximity relate to a particular industry's innovative output. Two mechanisms are therefore tested, i.e. agglomeration economies and the regional exploitation of technological proximity. A new dataset is applied, which includes...

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The Spatial Diffusion of a Knowledge Base-Laser Technology Research in West Germany, 1960-2005

Fritsch, Michael; Medrano, Luis F. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

We analyze the spatial diffusion of knowledge in laser technology in West Germany from 1960, when this technology began, until 2005. Laser technology research has been nearly exclusively conducted in regions that are home to a university with a physics or electrical engineering department, an...

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