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Historical roots of entrepreneurship in different regional contexts : the case of Poland

Fritsch, Michael; Pylak, Korneliusz; Wyrwich, Michael - In: Small business economics : an international journal 59 (2022) 1, pp. 397-412

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Ready to leave the ivory tower? Academic scientists' appeal to work in the private sector

Fritsch, Michael; Krabel, Stefan - 2009

In this study we investigate the factors that shape the attitudes of scientists toward starting their own business or working in a private sector firm. The analysis is based on data collected from scientists working in the German Max Planck Society, a research institution devoted to basic...

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Regional knowledge and the emergence of an industry: Laser systems production in West Germany, 1975-2005

Bünstorf, Guido; Fritsch, Michael; Medrano, Luis F. - 2010

We analyze the emergence and spatial evolution of the German laser systems industry. Regional knowledge in the related … downstream systems market. Entry into the materials processing submarket appears to be unrelated to academic knowledge in the … region, but the presence of laser source producers and the regional stock of laser knowledge are still highly predictive in …

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Micro fluidity and macro stability in inventor networks

Fritsch, Michael; Kudic, Muhamed - 2019

From a macro perspective, inventor networks are characterized by rather stable structures. However, the high levels of fluidity of inventors and their ties found in reality contradicts this macro pattern. In order to explain these contradicting patterns, we zoom in on the intermediate group...

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Historical roots of entrepreneurship-facilitating culture and innovation activity : an analysis for German regions

Fritsch, Michael; Obschonka, Martin; Wyrwich, Michael - In: Regional studies : official journal of the Regional … 53 (2019) 9, pp. 1296-1307

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Historical roots of entrepreneurial culture and innovation activity : an analysis for German regions

Fritsch, Michael; Obschonka, Martin; Wyrwich, Michael - 2018

innovation activity. …

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Young SMEs : driving innovation in Europe?

Veugelers, Reinhilde; Ferrando, Annalisa; Lekpek, Senad; … - 2018

classes across all sectors and all EU Member States, we identify different innovation profiles based on a firm's R …&D investment and/or innovation activities. We find that "basic" firms - i.e. firms that do not engage in any type of R&D or … innovation - are more common among young SMEs, while innovators - i.e. firms that do R&D and introduce new products, processes or …

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Does successful innovation require large urban areas? : Germany as a counterexample

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - In: Economic geography 97 (2021) 3, pp. 284-308

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Cultural imprinting : ancient origins of entrepreneurship and innovation in Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Wahl, Fabian; Wyrwich, Michael - 2021

innovation culture today, evident by higher levels of quantity and quality entrepreneurship and innovation. The data indicate …

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Acquiring R&D projects: who, when, and what? : evidence from antidiabetic drug development

Malek, Jan; Newham, Melissa; Seldeslachts, Jo; … - 2024

This paper analyzes M&A patterns of R&D projects in the antidiabetics industry. For this purpose, we construct a database with all corporate individual antidiabetics R&D projects over the period 1997 - 2017, and add detailed information on firms' technology dimension using patent information,...

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