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Why Does the Effect of New Business Formation Differ Across Regions?

Fritsch, Michael; Schroeter, Alexandra - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

education and innovation activity in the region proved not to be statistically significant. Conducting our analysis for …

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Post-conflict Microfinance: Assessment and Policy Notes for Iraq

Desai, Sameeksha - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper explores the potential of microfinance in post-conflict economies, and specifically examines policy considerations for the case of Iraq. It presents important conditions of the post-conflict economy, and examines three critical requirements for successful microfinance operations, as...

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Inspecting the Poverty-Trap Mechanism - A Quantile Regression Approach

Krüger, Jens J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The issue of poverty traps is assessed using quantile regression. For that an augmentation of the usual convergence regressions by quadratic and cubic terms is used with emphasis on curve fitting rather than parameter estimation. The results show that the generic mechanism leading to poverty...

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Direct and indirect effects of new businesses on regional employment - An empirical analysis

Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian; Schindele, Yvonne - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

We analyze different types of effects that new businesses may have on regional employment. We introduce different measures for employment change by separating employment change in incumbent businesses and employment change in new businesses. There are pronounced differences between regions with...

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The Contribution of New Businesses to Regional Employment - An Empirical Analysis of the Direct Employment Effect

Fritsch, Michael; Schindele, Yvonne - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

We investigate regional differences in the contribution of newly founded businesses to regional employment. This is labeled the direct employment effect of new businesses. The analysis is at the spatial level of West German planning regions for the period 1984-2002. We find rather pronounced...

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Start-ups, New Business Employment, and the Effects on Incumbents: Who Contributes the Larger Share?

Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

We investigate the effects that new business formation has on employment in incumbent firms and compare it to the development in the start-ups. The analysis is performed for West German regions over the 1984-2002 period. It shows that the employment effects of new businesses on the incumbents...

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Success in Pharmaceutical Research: The Changing Role of Scale and Scope Economies, Spillovers and Competition

Plotnikova, Tatiana - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

factors of success in drug development programs at different stages of innovation process. We use economies of scale, scope, R … a project differs in relation to the discovery and development stages of innovation, respectively. Our main finding is … discovery stage of innovation, while in the later development stage, the effects of competition outweigh any benefits from …

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Productivity and Heterogeneous Knowledge: Exploring the Relationship in a Sample of Drug Developers

Bottazzi, Giulio; Plotnikova, Tatiana - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper aims to investigate the effect of knowledge characteristics on the total factor productivity of firms developing drugs in the pharmaceutical industry. We decompose knowledge into knowledge associated with the technological firm portfolio and knowledge related to R&D projects, which...

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The Impact of Government Procurement Composition on Private R&D Activities

Slavtchev, Viktor; Wiederhold, Simon - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper addresses the question of whether government procurement can work as a de facto innovation policy tool. We … develop an endogenous growth model with quality-improving innovation that incorporates industries with heterogeneous … innovation sizes. Government demand in high-tech industries increases the market size in these industries and, with it, the …

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Commercializing inventions from public research: Does speed matter?

Schacht, Alexander - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This study addresses the determinants of time-to-licensing, defined as the elapsed time between the disclosure of an invention and the signed licensing contract, and its impact on the commercial success of the licensed inventions from public research. Using a dataset containing detailed...

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