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Universities, Public Research and Regional Innovation Output : An Empirical Study of 19 Technologies in Germany

Brenner, Thomas; Schlump, Charlotte - 2013

It has been repeatedly shown that universities and public research institutes contribute to local innovation generation … empirical examinations are missing. We analyse the impact of universities and public research on regional innovation output …

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University education, public research and employment growth in regions : an empirical study of Germany

Brenner, Thomas; Schlump, Charlotte - 2010

Universities and research institutes are seen as important drivers of the regional economy. Their impact on regional … between manufacturing and service industries. Such a clear difference between the two types of industries is not found for …

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Growth dynamics in regional systems of technological activities : a SVAR approach

Duschl, Matthias; Brenner, Thomas - 2013

This paper analyses the causal relationships in regional technological systems within a structural vector autoregression (SVAR) framework. Applying a data-driven identification strategy based on Independent Component Analysis, it shows how the regional growth dynamics of economic, research,...

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Joint R&D subsidies, related variety, and regional innovation

Brökel, Tom; Brachert, Matthias; Duschl, Matthias; … - 2015

Subsidies for R&D are an important tool of public R&D policy, which motivates extensive scientific analyses and evaluations. The paper adds to this literature by arguing that the effects of R&D subsidies go beyond the extension of organizations' monetary resources invested into R&D. It is argued...

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The innovation efficiency of German regions : a shared-input DEA approach

Brökel, Tom; Rogge, Nicky; Brenner, Thomas - 2013

The paper contributes to the debate on how to measure regions' innovation performance. On the basis of the concept of regional innovation efficiency, we propose a new measure that eases the issue of choosing between industry-specific or global measures. We argue for the use of a robust...

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Universities as local knowledge hubs under different technology regimes - New evidence from academic patenting

Dornbusch, Friedrich; Brenner, Thomas - 2013

It is often claimed that universities act as local knowledge factories. Although this function is largely analyzed in … industry affects interactions between universities and firms. Thereby, we differentiate between six technological regimes … constituted by different knowledge dynamics. Our analyses are based on a unique dataset containing all German universities …

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The organizational and regional determinants of inter-regional collaborations : academic inventors as bridging agents

Dornbusch, Friedrich; Proff, Sidonia von; Brenner, Thomas - 2013

Collaboration over distance is difficult to maintain in innovation projects which require a great deal of regional collaboration. However, patent documents reveal that a number of inventor teams are able to overcome long distances. Earlier literature started to investigate factors, which...

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Firm growth and the spatial impact of geolocated external factors : empirical evidence for German manufacturing firms

Duschl, Matthias; Schimke, Antje; Brenner, Thomas; … - 2011

universities, is studied. The spatial characteristics of these relationships are examined by geolocating firms into a more …. Applying quantile regression techniques on a large sample of German manufacturing firms, we show that the impact of external …

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Co-operation over distance? : the spatial dimension of inter-organisational innovation collaboration

Dettmann, Anja; Proff, Sidonia von; Brenner, Thomas - 2012

In the literature there is a controversy about the relevance of the spatial dimension in innovation collaboration. We examine the link between the spatial composition of group members and group characteristics which are important for performing innovation projects. To this end, we introduce a...

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Science, innovation and national growth

Brenner, Thomas - 2014

This paper studies the effects of public research (publications) and innovation output (patents) on national economic growth with the help of a GMM panel regression including 114 countries. Effects on productivity growth and capital and labor inputs are distinguished. Furthermore, different time...

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