Das Konzept der innovativen Milieus im Sinne der GREMI hat die theoretische Debatte um Raumentwicklung stark beeinflusst, war und ist aber auch für die Etablierung von Netzwerken als Instrument z. B. der Wirtschaftsförderung hilfreich. Seine empirischen Defizite sind in den letzten Jahren...

Innovationen sind eine wesentliche Triebfeder ökonomischen Wachstums und des Strukturwandels von Volks- und Regionalwirtschaften sowie Unternehmen. Sie können durch viele Arten von Sektor- und Querschnittspolitiken staatlich unterstützt werden, wobei die regionale Innovationsförderung in...

Der Beitrag beantwortet zwei bislang kaum behandelte Fragen: Wie gut schöpfen deutsche Regionen ihr Potenzial zur Erzeugung regenerativer Energien aus und welche Faktoren beeinflussen diese Ausbaueffizienz? Mit dem neuartigen quantitativ-empirischen Konzept der Ausbaueffizienz wird das Ausmaß...

Youth entrepreneurship is an increasingly prominent aspect of entrepreneurship support policies, but there is surprisingly little relevant research-based empirical evidence. This research gap is particularly noticeable when it comes to the personal and contextual factors that steer young...

A presence on the web tends to be important for firms. Empirical studies show that firms with a better performance across various dimensions, and firms that are more internationally active, tend to have a website. Furthermore, a website helped firms to survive during the COVID-19 pandemic. An...

This note gives a short overview of the first 50 contributions to the Data Observer series that were published between 2016 and 2022.2 21 papers deal with data on individuals or household, 12 with data on establishments or enterprises, 2 with linked employer-employee data, 9 cover aggregate data...

This paper uses firm level data from World Bank Enterprise surveys conducted in 2019, and COVID-19 follow-up surveys conducted in 2020, in ten European countries to investigate the link between the gender of the firm's owner and the firm's survival until 2020. The empirical investigation uses...

This paper uses firm-level data from the Flash Eurobarometer 421 survey conducted in June 2015 in 34 European countries to investigate the link between having a website and international firm activities in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We find that firms that are present on the web...

Abstract This paper uses information on more than 160 million export and import transactions by German firms from 2009 to 2012 to document the decisive role of multi-market traders that are active on many foreign markets, where a market is defined as a combination of a good traded and a country...