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

special focus on entrepreneurship and innovation. South Saxony has a long history of self-employment and knowledge generation …

innovation activity. …

region. However we do not find those effects for the other industries due to their idiosyncratic innovation and patenting …

innovation activities, the extent of these advantages is not very large. We conclude that popular theories over-emphasize the … importance of large cities for innovation activities. …

Popular theories claim that innovation activities should be located in large cities because of more favorable … such theories. We argue that a main force behind the geography of innovation in Germany is the country's federal tradition … and distribution of knowledge sources on innovation activities today. We conclude that historical factors that shape the …

The unification of the East and West German states in 1990 initiated the integration of two distinct innovation systems …, the gap between East and West Germany widened considerably over time. This divergence in innovation activity suggests that … occurred upon reunification. We also find that the similarity of the technology profile of the East and West German innovation …

The paper targets the relationship between growth of cooperation and later growth of innovation at the regional level …