The relationship between innovation and firm survival is analyzed for the population of German laser source producers … from the beginning of the industry until 2005. Innovation effort is approximated by the generation of high quality patents …

We assess the efficiency of regional innovation systems (RIS) in Germany by means of a knowledge production function … efficiency of its innovation system is inversely u-shaped. Regions dominated by large establishments tend to be less efficient …

Innovation processes are characterized by a pronounced division of labor between actors. Two types of externality may … innovation (MAR externalities). On the other hand, new ideas may be born by the exchange of heterogeneous and complementary …

In this paper we investigate the determinants of cooperative innovation and put our main focus on the regional or … differential regional effects. The latter can be used to identify and evaluate the strength of regional innovation systems …. Applying this method to German patent data we find evidence that regional differences in the degree of cooperative innovation …

innovation as well as the project´s feasibility. Our analysis of 900 nascent entrepreneurs finds that patents and prototypes … increase the likelihood of obtaining equity finance. Thus, if signals are credible, innovation positively impacts external … that the relation between finance and innovation depends on the stage of a start-up lifecycle. …

region. However we do not find those effects for the other industries due to their idiosyncratic innovation and patenting …

positive effects on innovation of both the total number of relations and of access to a larger knowledge base. However, when … some sort of public good to the innovation system. …

The paper targets the relationship between growth of cooperation and later growth of innovation at the regional level …