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. …

We investigate the role of entrepreneurship culture and the historical knowledge base of a region on current levels of … indicates the prevalence of a regional culture of entrepreneurship. Moreover, local presence and geographic proximity to a … later. The results show that a considerable part of the knowledge that constitutes an important source of entrepreneurial …

Recent extensions to the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship (KSTE) show that the successful … commercialization of new knowledge by incumbents depends on their absorptive capacities. For policy-makers focusing on increasing … incumbents' innovative performance, the systematic reduction of knowledge filter through improved absorptive capacities thus …

The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship (KSTE) considers determinants of knowledge diffusion as well as … a federal innovation program, structural drivers, firm clusters and domain-specific knowledge filters for digitization … diffusion of new knowledge has been emphasized. For those firms, the barriers to an effective flow of information are considered …

The main objective of the thesis is to contribute to the field of entrepreneurship in the areas of new firm formation … the entrepreneurial culture and the level of innovation activity. Second, the empirical analyses show that … entrepreneurship is a source of regional economic development. New firms have a long term employment effects and new firms serve as a …