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Penetrating the knowledge filter in "rust-belt" economies
Ács, Zoltán J.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - 2008
A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new generic knowledge and economically-useful knowledge. It identifies both the formation of new ventures and the absorptive capacity of incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical...
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Regional effects on cooperative innovation activities and the related variety of regional knowledge bases
Cantner, Uwe; Meder, Andreas - 2009
The literature on Innovation Systems is divided into several directories. Dif- ferences occur through the definition of … effects of cooperative innovation activities and analyzes furthermore how dif- ferent dimensions of regional knowledge affect … the regional effects on coopera- tive innovation activities. We find evidence that the related variety of knowl- edge …
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Regional dynamics of innovation investigating the co-evolution of patents, R&D, and employment
Bürger, Matthias; Brökel, Tom; Coad, Alex - 2009
region. However we do not find those effects for the other industries due to their idiosyncratic innovation and patenting …
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Dynamics of collaborative invention tracking growth of cooperative and total patents in the region
Bürger, Matthias - 2011
The paper targets the relationship between growth of cooperation and later growth of innovation at the regional level …
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The contribution of new businesses to regional employment: an empirical analysis of the direct employment effect
Fritsch, Michael; Schindele, Yvonne - 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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Investigating the anatomy of the employment effects of new business formation
Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian - 2009
Recent empirical research has found that the effect of new business formation on employment emerges over a period of about ten years and has identified a 'wave' pattern of these effects. In this study, we decompose the overall contribution of new business formation on employment change into...
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Start-ups, new business employment, and the effects on incumbents: who contributes the larger share?
Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian - 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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Start-ups, long- and short-term survivors and their effect on regional employment growth
Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian - 2009
We investigate the effects that regional start-up activity has on employment in new and in incumbent businesses. The analysis is performed for West German regions over the 1987-2002 period. It shows that the effects of new businesses on employment in the incumbents are significantly positive and...
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How long does it take to become an entrepreneurial society: The case of german convergence in self-employment
Schindele, Yvonne - 2010
Since the beginning of the transformation of East Germany from a socialist planned economy to a market economy, there has been an ambitious political goal of fostering entrepreneurial activity in that part of the country. One of the most-hoped for results of this undertaking is the anticipated...
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Why does the effect of new business formation differ across regions?
Fritsch, Michael; Schröter, Alexandra - 2007
unemployment rate as well as the degree of specialization of the regional economy. However, indicators for education and innovation …
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