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Der Einfluß der Grenznähe auf die Standortwahl von Unternehmen: Eine theoretische Analyse und empirische Befunde für Ostdeutschland

Engel, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999

Die EU-Osterweiterung ermöglicht eine stärkere Arbeitsteilung zwischen den relativ kapitalreichen Staaten der EU und den relativ arbeitsreichen Zutrittsländern Mittel- und Osteuropas, von der insbesondere die ostdeutschen Kreise in Nähe der Grenze profitieren können. Diese Studie widmet...

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The Creative Class, Bohemians and Local Labor Market Performance: A Micro-data Panel Study for Germany 1975-2004

Möller, Joachim; Tubadji, Annie - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

The paper aims at testing Florida's concept of the Creative Class using panel data for 323 West German regions for the time period 1975 2004. Applying a dynamic system approach based on GMM, we find that the local concentration of the Creative Class has predictive power for the economic...

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International Cooperation on Innovation: Empirical Evidence for German and Portuguese Firms

Faria, Pedro; Schmidt, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

innovation activities. Portuguese and German data from the harmonised Community Innovation Survey (CIS III) allow us to compare … innovation cooperation behaviour of private firms in the two countries. Using a bivariate probit model, we show that the … cooperate with foreign partners than non-exporters, whereas in Portugal this is not the case. …

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Young, open and international: the impact of search strategies on the internationalization of new ventures

Zimmermann, Jörg; Grimpe, Christoph; Sofka, Wolfgang - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

internationalization process. We contribute to this research stream by establishing theoretical links with the emerging open innovation … with regard to the effect of open innovation strategies on internationalization performance. Our results show that both the …

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Entrepreneurs from low-skilled immigrant groups in knowledge-intensive industries - company characteristics, survival and innovative performance

Mueller, Elisabeth - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

This paper analyzes how companies of immigrant entrepreneurs in knowledgeintensive industries differ from companies of native entrepreneurs with respect to start-up characteristics, firm survival and innovative performance. I focus on immigrants from the 'recruitment countries' of south and...

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Can regional transfers buy public support? Evidence from EU structural policy

Osterloh, Steffen - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

Regional transfers are assumed to have an impact on the public opinion towards the benefactor, but empirical evidence is still scarce. In this paper we test this hypothesis for the structural funds of the European Union (EU) by combining detailed data on regional transfers with public opinion...

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Welche Regionen profitieren von Venture Capital-Aktivitäten?

Engel, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

Mit der Venture Capital (VC)-Finanzierung als Teil eines regionalen Innovationssystems sind Erwartungen verbunden, die Kommerzialisierung neuer Forschungsergebnisse in marktfähige Produkte in einer Region zu fördern. In Erwartung positiver Effekte eines solchen Kapitalzuflusses in eine Region...

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Stimuliert der BioRegio-Wettbewerb die Bildung von Biotechnologieclustern in Deutschland?

Engel, Dirk; Heneric, Oliver - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

Regions with biotechnology-specific knowledge seem to have best chances to attract potential entrepreneurs to establish a biotechnology-firm. Furthermore, regional oriented technology policy is supposed to stimulate the creation process of biotechnology clusters, too. The BioRegio contest (BRC)...

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Team heterogeneity in startups and its development over time

Kaiser, Ulrich; Müller, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

entrepreneurship research. To assess relative workforce heterogeneity, we construct a simulated benchmark to which we compare observed …

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Corporate main bank decision

Höwer, Daniel - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

Do firms select their main bank relationship according to their risk or risk preferences? Relationship banking is attractive for high risk firms since it improves their access to finance and provides liquidity insurance. Low risk firms instead may not want to bear the additional costs. I employ...

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