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Cluster innovation along the industry lifecycle

Eisingerich, Andreas; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; … - 2008

interorganizational network strength, openness, university collaboration, and intrapreneurship on radical innovation across adolescent and …

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The extension of clusters: Differences-in-difference evidence from the Bavarian state-wide cluster policy

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Kipar, Stefan - 2008

Bavarian State Government. The purpose of the initiative was to create a Bavarian-wide innovation network in support of state … the likelihood of innovation by a firm in the targeted industry by 4 to 7 percentage points. However, this effect is …

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Networks and innovation: the role of social assets in explaining firms' innovative capacity

Cantner, Uwe; Conti, Elisa; Meder, Andreas - 2009

debated topic in the literature. Although controversial, such an argument has informed recent innovation policy across Germany …-based innovation policies are receiving, it is worth answering two main ques-tions. First, are firms with a relatively high level of … social capital likely to be more in-novative? Second, do companies pursuing innovation in partnership innovate more? This …

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Creative class and regional growth: empirical evidence from eight European countries

Boschma, Ron A.; Fritsch, Michael - 2007

We analyze the regional distribution and the effect of people in creative occupations based on data for more than 450 regions in eight European countries. The geographic distribution of the creative class is highly uneven. The creative class is not attracted to highly urbanized regions per se,...

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The regional dimension of sectoral innovativeness: An empirical investigation of two specialised supplier and two science-based industries

Bürger, Matthias; Cantner, Uwe - 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 effect of new business formation on employment: the dominance of density

Schröter, Alexandra - 2009

Empirical analyses show that the employment effects of start-ups are highest in agglomerations, whereas moderately congested areas exhibit only modest effects, and weak or even no significant effects could be found in rural regions. This paper will set out to show that these discrepancies arise...

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