Universities and public research organisations play a vital role not only in thegeneration of new technological knowledge, but also in its diffusion. We analyse fourEast German local networks of innovators which differ in structure and innovativeperformance and investigate the characteristic...

A new approach in German innovation policy organizes contests of proposals for developing innovation networks. Based on an overview of the different programs, we investigate the advantages, problems and limitations of such an approach. We find that this type of policy may have a relatively large...

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...

A new approach in German innovation policy organizes contests of proposals for developing innovation networks. Based on an overview of the different programs, we investigate the advantages, problems and limitations of such an approach. We find that this type of policy may have a relatively large...

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...

Die Gründung eines innovativen Unternehmens stellt eine Form der kommerziellen Verwer-tung von Wissen dar. Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über Ausmaß von Gründungen in wis-sensintensiven bzw. innovativen Branchen und deren Entwicklung. Da die Gründung eines Unternehmens wesentlich durch...

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...

Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or...

This paper re-examines the link between new firm formation and subsequent employment growth. It investigates whether it is possible to have the wrong type of entrepreneurship - defined as new firm formation which leads to zero or even negative subsequent employment growth. It uses a very similar...