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The global entrepreneurship index (GEINDEX)

Ács, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László - 2009

drive innovation. …

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Penetrating the knowledge filter in "rust-belt" economies

Ács, Zoltán J.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - 2008

A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new generic knowledge and economically-useful knowledge. It identifies both the formation of new ventures and the absorptive capacity of incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical...

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Absorptive capacity and innovation: When is it better to cooperate?

Egbetokun, Abiodun A.; Savin, Ivan - 2012

Cooperation can benefit and hurt firms at the same time. An important question then is: when is it better to cooperate. And how can an appropriate partner be selected? In this paper we present a model of inter-firm cooperation driven by cognitive distance, appropriability conditions and external...

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Demography and innovative entrepreneurship

Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2007

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...

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Incumbent innovation and entry by spinoff

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2008

incumbents are not willing or able to exploit. Accordingly, incumbent innovation determines exploitable knowledge externalities … for spinoffs while, at the same time, spinoffs are expected to influence incumbent innovation. To overcome this problem of … by spinoffs does, indeed, have a positive impact on incumbent innovation. …

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Regional effects on cooperative innovation activities and the related variety of regional knowledge bases

Cantner, Uwe; Meder, Andreas - 2009

The literature on Innovation Systems is divided into several directories. Dif- ferences occur through the definition of … effects of cooperative innovation activities and analyzes furthermore how dif- ferent dimensions of regional knowledge affect … the regional effects on coopera- tive innovation activities. We find evidence that the related variety of knowl- edge …

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Creating strategic advantage through entrepreneurial governance in new ventures

Audretsch, David B.; Lehmann, Erik E.; Plummer, Lawrence A. - 2007

An important literature has made a fundamental link between corporate governance and corporate strategy. According to agency theory, assigning managers stock options aligns their interests with the interests of the owners of the firm. This paper suggests that this may not apply in the context of...

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Employment growth of new firms

Stam, Erik; Gibcus, Petra; Telussa, Jennifer; Garnsey, … - 2008

This paper analyses the association between dynamic capabilities and new firm growth, controlling for measures of firm resources, characteristics of the entrepreneur, and aspects of the environment. The central research question is: How strong is the relationship between dynamic capabilities and...

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Who starts with open source? Institutional choice of start-ups in the German ICT sector

Fritsch, Michael; von Engelhardt, Sebastian - 2010

We analyze the characteristics of new businesses in the German ICT industry, distinguishing them based on their choice between two IPR regimes: open source software (OSS) or closed source software (CSS). The share of new firms with an OSS-based business model has increased considerably over the...

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Prior knowledge and entrepreneurial innovative success

Cantner, Uwe; Goethner, Maximilian; Meder, Andreas - 2007

first hint towards the importance of collective innovation activities. …

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