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The impact of regional and functional integration on the post-entry performance of knowledge intensive business service firms

Koch, Andreas; Strotmann, Harald - 2004

, innovation and user-producer interaction in the KIBS sector, functional and regional integration are particularly decisive for …-Classification: D21, J23, L80, O30 Keywords: Employment growth; Entrepreneurship; Entry; Innovation; Knowledge-intensive business …

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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Entrepreneurship and Path Dependency in a Regional Context

Florkowski, Sabrina - 2010

A student of regional development can identify two general types of explanations for why some regions develop as they do. The first explanation relates to the emergence of innovative activities carried out by pioneering entrepreneurs that may transform the society and economy. In literature,...

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Cooperation and Innovation Performance in Rural, Low-Technology Regions

Schiller, Daniel; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Wassmann, Pia - 2014

This paper assesses the extent to which cooperation impacts innovation performance of firms in rural regions … firms. For policymakers, this implies that an exclusive focus on R&D-based regional innovation policies may be neither …

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Measurement of Innovation: Where Do We Stand?

Artige, Lionel - 2016

Innovation is widely considered as the main determinant of long-term economic growth. Despite this consensus, it is … critical examination of innovation indicators and measures of the economic impact of innovation. All available innovation … indicators fall short of measuring innovation and its economic effect. However, the future could be more promising as enterprises …

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On Creativity: From conceptual ideas towards a systemic understanding

Suwala, Lech - 2017

The ‘creativity hype’ has nurtured both manifold insights by dint of academic studies, research reports and policy papers as well as an array of extensive shortcomings concerning the academic understanding of ‘creativity’. In the realm of economic geography, an inflationary and unwitting...

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Innovation, Skills and Investment: A Digital Industrial Policy for Europe

Gruber, Harald - 2017

This paper identifies the main factors for Europe’s delays in embracing the well proven growth enhancing effects of digital technologies. It argues that market failures, including externalities from knowledge spillovers, cybersecurity and first mover advantages justify public support. The...

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Looking beyond the R&D effects on innovation: The contribution of non-R&D activities to total factor productivity growth in the EU

Lopez-Rodriguez, Jesus; Martinez, Diego - 2015

Although non-R&D innovation activities account for a significant portion of innovation efforts carried out across very …

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Start-ups, Long- and Short-Term Survivors and their Effect on Regional Employment Growth

Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian - 2010

We investigate the effects that regional start-up activity has on employment in new and in incumbent businesses. The analysis is performed for West German regions over the 1987-2002 period. It shows that the effects of new businesses on employment in the incumbents are significantly positive and...

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Does Quality make a Difference? Employment Effects of High- and Low-Quality Start-ups

Fritsch, Michael; Schroeter, Alexandra - 2010

This paper investigates the impact of new firms' quality on the magnitude of their employment effects. Our results clearly show that the quality of start-ups, measured by their affiliation to sectors and innovative industries, strongly influences the direct and the overall employment...

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What happened to entrepreneurial economies after the financial crisis? An empirical study of OECD countries

Bonnet, Jean; Abdesselam, Rafik; Renou-Maissant, Patricia; … - 2015

The aim of this paper is to analyze entrepreneurial activity in OECD countries over the period 1999-2012 in order to make a distinction between economies that are more or less entrepreneurial. A combined use of multidimensional and evolutive data analysis methods is used with variables...

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