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This paper investigates the impact of new firms' quality on the magnitude of their employment effects. Our results clearly show that the quality of start-ups, measured by their affiliation with sectors and innovative industries, strongly influences the direct and the overall employment...
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Innovation is increasingly seen as a collective action which involves many different actors operating in a cluster … important tool to study innovation, but the globalisation of companies and markets and the specific requirements of innovation … and virtual cluster links improves access to essential resources in innovation. An examples taken from the automotive …
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indicator of innovation-related power exhibits a considerable southnorth, west-east, and urban-rural divide. The huge lead … are the only positive exceptions to a general innovation weakness in eastern Germany. The major challenge for Germany is … to continue catching up with the global leaders in an increasingly intense research, development and innovation race. To …
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This paper investigates to what extent the R&D behavior of manufacturing companies was influenced by the 2008/09 crisis. Based on a broad official data set for German manufacturing companies, only a few companies that engaged in R&D during 2008 gave it up in the following year. Some companies...
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particular emphasis on product quality, innovation and skills. The firm-level case studies support the conclusions arising from … and innovation arising from UK R&D is of a high but, compared to their German counterparts, UK firms often fail to …
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-use in newly constructed buildings and how it induces innovation in the residential-building industry. The data used consists …
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We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we compare total individual income of permanent adult residents, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West...
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After 20 years of transition from an economy integrated in an exchange scheme of planned economies towards an open market economy based on the ideas of competition, we ask whether East German firms succeeded in finding their place in the international division of labour. We concentrate on the...
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Einleitung: Im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung werden seit Jahren "Berichte zur technologischen Leistungsfähigkeit Deutschlands" vorgelegt, die den Strukturwandel in Richtung wissensintensiver Wirtschaftszweige und Tätigkeiten im zeitlichen und internationalen...
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Innovation gilt als der Schlüssel zu Wirtschaftswachstum und in der modernen Ökonomie nimmt der Entrepreneur dabei die … Grundvoraussetzung für Innovation und Wachstum fördern. Speziell infolge der Banken- und Staatsschuldenkrise sieht Europa erneut …Innovation is regarded as the key to economic growth and entrepreneurs take a leading role in promoting innovation in …
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