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Start-ups, long- and short-term survivors and their effect on regional employment growth

Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian - 2010

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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New Business Formation and Regional Development : A Survey and Assessment of the Evidence

Fritsch, Michael - 2011

This paper reviews the current state of knowledge about the effect of new business formation on regional development. After a brief sketch of the origins of research on this issue, the main results of different lines of inquiry are discussed. Main issues are the development of start-up cohorts,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124164

Does Quality Make a Difference? Employment Effects of High- and Low-Quality Start-Ups

Fritsch, Michael - 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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Entrepreneurship in the long-run : empirical evidence and historical mechanisms

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2022

We review and discuss research on the development of regional entrepreneurship over time. A particular focus is on the long-term persistence of regional levels of entrepreneurship, its explanation, and its meaning for economic development. What is the state of empirical research in this field,...

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What determines the innovative success of subsidized collaborative R&D projects? - Project-level evidence from Germany

Günther, Jutta; Schwartz, Michael; Peglow, Francois; … - 2010

Systemic innovation theory emphasizes that innovations are the result of an interdependent exchange process between … different organizations. This is reflected in the current paradigm in European innovation policy, which aims at the support of … collaborative R&D and innovation projects bringing together science and industry. Building on a large data set using project …

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Who Cooperates on R&D?

Fritsch, Michael; Lukas, Rolf - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 1998

Based on a largely unbiased sample of 1800 German manufacturing enterprises we analyze the propensity to maintain different forms of R&D cooperation with customers, suppliers, competitors and public research institutions. We find a relatively stable set of characteristics of those enterprises...

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Innovation, Cooperation, and the Region

Fritsch, Michael; Lukas, Rolf - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 1998

This paper investigates R&D cooperation of manufacturing establishments in three German regions. We find that cooperation is a widespread phenomenon and examine the characteristics of those establishments that maintain certain kinds of cooperative relationships.

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The impact of network structure on knowledge transfer: An application of social network analysis in the context of regional innovation networks

Fritsch, Michael; Kauffeld-Monz, Martina - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

We analyze information and knowledge transfer in a sample of 16 German regional innovation networks with almost 300 …

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What determines the innovative success of subsidized collaborative R&D projects? : Project-level evidence from Germany

Schwartz, Michael; Peglow, Francois; Fritsch, Michael; … - 2010

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