Innovations are inherently connected to knowledge transfers. The need of face-to-face contacts to transfer tacit knowledge is commonly argued to cause a regional dimension of innovative activities. The paper presents an alternative explanation based on a model of boundedly rational actors who...

Dieses Teil-Positionspapier fokussiert das Themenfeld "Wirtschaft und Arbeit". Es steht im Zusammenhang mit den parallel erarbeiteten Positionspapieren der Arbeitsgruppe der ARL-Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft NRW und trägt mit diesen zusammen dazu bei, Zukunftsperspektiven ländlicher Räume in...

This book explores the relationship between families, firms, and regions and the extent to which these relationships contribute to regional economic and social development. Although family business participation in economic activities has been a common phenomenon since pre-industrial societies,...

Multilokalität wird in diesem Beitrag unter dem Aspekt räumlicher und regionaler Entwicklung entlang neuerer regionalökonomischer und soziologischer Konzepte betrachtet, die aufgrund der Erfahrungen des sozioökonomischen Paradigmenwechsels der 1980er-Jahre entstanden sind. Zugrunde liegt die...

Over the past sixty years, the concept of development has expanded from economic growth and investment, to poverty reduction, human development, sustainable development, and more recently to institutional development. There has also been a fresh look at industrial policy and the role of the...

Empirical analyses suggest that the employment creating effect of start-ups is highest in regions with a low level of new business formation and that an increase in the regional start-up rate beyond a certain level may lead to negative employment effect. In explaining these results, we assume...

We investigate regional differences in the level and the development of regional new business formation activity. There is a pronounced variance of start-up rates across the regions. The level of regional new firm formation is rather pathdependent so that changes are relatively small. The main...