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Does quality make a difference? : Employment effects of high- and low-quality start-ups

Fritsch, Michael; Schroeter, Alexandra - 2011

This paper investigates the impact of new firms' quality on the magnitude of their employment effects. Our results clearly show that the quality of start-ups, measured by their affiliation with sectors and innovative industries, strongly influences the direct and the overall employment...

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Innovation clusters : combining physical and virtual links

Preißl, Brigitte - 2003

Innovation is increasingly seen as a collective action which involves many different actors operating in a cluster … important tool to study innovation, but the globalisation of companies and markets and the specific requirements of innovation … and virtual cluster links improves access to essential resources in innovation. An examples taken from the automotive …

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R&D behavior of German manufacturing companies during the 2008/09 recession

Eickelpasch, Alexander - 2014

This paper investigates to what extent the R&D behavior of manufacturing companies was influenced by the 2008/09 crisis. Based on a broad official data set for German manufacturing companies, only a few companies that engaged in R&D during 2008 gave it up in the following year. Some companies...

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Explaining export success in the UK and German medical equipment industry

Anderton, Bob; Schultz, Siegfried - 1999

particular emphasis on product quality, innovation and skills. The firm-level case studies support the conclusions arising from … and innovation arising from UK R&D is of a high but, compared to their German counterparts, UK firms often fail to …

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Regulation, innovation and technology diffusion : evidence from building energy efficiency standards in Germany

Shagi, Makram el-; Michelsen, Claus; Rosenschon, Sebastian - 2014

-use in newly constructed buildings and how it induces innovation in the residential-building industry. The data used consists …

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20 years of German unification : evidence on income convergence and heterogeneity

Brück, Tilman; Peters, Heiko - 2009

We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we compare total individual income of permanent adult residents, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West...

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Product policy and the East-West productivity gap : evidence from German manufacturing firms

Görzig, Bernd; Gornig, Martin; Voshage, Ramona; … - 2009

After 20 years of transition from an economy integrated in an exchange scheme of planned economies towards an open market economy based on the ideas of competition, we ask whether East German firms succeeded in finding their place in the international division of labour. We concentrate on the...

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Neuere Entwicklungen in der industrieökonomischen Forschung und die aktuelle Berichterstattung über die technologische Leistungsfähigkeit Deutschlands

Haid, Alfred; Münter, Markus Thomas - 1999

Einleitung: Im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung werden seit Jahren "Berichte zur technologischen Leistungsfähigkeit Deutschlands" vorgelegt, die den Strukturwandel in Richtung wissensintensiver Wirtschaftszweige und Tätigkeiten im zeitlichen und internationalen...

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Business cycles and start-ups across industries : an empirical analysis of German regions

Konon, Alexander; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander - 2018

We analyze whether start-up rates in different industries systematically change with business cycle variables. Using a unique data set at the industry level, we mostly find correlations that are consistent with counter-cyclical influences of the business cycle on entries in both innovative and...

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Financing patterns of innovative SMEs and the perception of innovation barriers in Germany

Belitz, Heike; Lejpras, Anna - 2014

conditions in the context of other framework conditions for innovation. In Germany, there is a diversity of overall well …-funded technology-neutral and technology-specific programs providing grants to R&D and innovation projects. Different types of SMEs … access public funding for R&D and innovation activities to varying degrees. Using an extensive sample of 2,700 German SMEs …

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