Setting up an innovative new firm is a way of commercializing knowledge. The paper gives an overview of the extent of … new firm formation in knowledge intensive and in innovative German industries and their development. The founding of a new …

We investigate the role of universities as a knowledge source for regional innovation processes. The contribution of … pure size is unimportant. Therefore, a policy that wants to promote regional innovation processes by building up …

We assess the efficiency of regional innovation systems (RIS) in Germany by means of a knowledge production function … efficiency of its innovation system is inversely u-shaped. Regions dominated by large establishments tend to be less efficient …

We analyze the spatial diffusion of knowledge in laser technology in West Germany from 1960, when this technology began … of laser knowledge was especially prevalent in large agglomerations. While we cannot detect knowledge spillovers from … research later, indicating the accumulation of knowledge generated in previous periods. Our results highlight the role of a …

While a market economy seeks equilibrium, a knowledge-based economy may upset this tendency towards stabilization by … innovation, and institutional control can be captured with a generalized Triple Helix model. We propose to use the mutual … Netherlands are tested: medium-tech manufacturing is the main driver of a knowledge-based configuration in a regional economy …

We investigate the role played by different fields of academic knowledge and various types of higher education … different indicators for these types of knowledge, the strongest effects are found for the number of professors, followed by the … the regional knowledge stock than the number of students that is most important for the emergence of innovative stat-ups. …

the knowledge in laser technology was particularly high in those regions which have started laser research rather early …. There is also no significant effect of regional knowledge in the field of laser technology on the number of regional laser …

knowledge spillovers and shift a location to a higher growth path. …