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...

A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new knowledge and economically useful knowledge. It identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at...

Die Gesundheitswirtschaft besitzt eine Schlüsselstellung für die Zukunft von Le‐bensqualität, Arbeit und Wettbewerbsfähig‐keit in Nordrhein‐Westfalen. Gesundheits‐wirtschaft zielt darauf, das Verhältnis von „Gesundheit“ und „Wirtschaft“ zum gesell‐schaftlichen Nutzen...

Trotz der noch immer schwierigen wirtschaftlichenSituation sind Teile des Ruhrgebietsauf dem Weg, ein bedeutender Standort für dieGesundheitswirtschaft zu werden. Hier hat sichin den letzten Jahren viel zum Positiven bewegt,da das Ruhrgebiet über einen quantitativ mehrals soliden...

Wir analysieren die räumliche Verteilung verschiedener Kategorien kreativer Personen inDeutschland. Allgemein ist der Anteil der Kreativen in den Städten höher als auf dem Land.Ein etwas abweichendes Standortverhalten zeigen die freiberuflichen Künstler, für die auch ineinigen ländlichen...

In our analysis of the impact of new firm formation on regional employment change we identified considerable time lags.We investigated the structure and extent of these time lags by applying the Almon lag model and found that new firms can have both a positive and a negative effect on regional...

Audretsch and Fritsch (2002) proposed two explanations for the mixed evidenceregarding the relationship between new firm formation and regional development. Firstly,they found evidence for the existence of long time lags needed before the main effects of newfirm formation on employment change...

We investigate the impact of new business formation on regional employment. The maineffects occur after a considerable time lag. Obviously, a large part of the effect is not due tojob creation by the newcomers but rather is of indirect nature. This implies that a large part ofthe debate about...

We investigate the effects of new business formation on employment change in German regions. A special focus is on the lag-structure of this effect and on differences between regions. The different phases of the effects of new business formation on regional development are relatively pronounced...