We investigate the causal relationship between inventor migration and regional innovation in the context of the large-scale migration shock from East to West Germany between World War II and the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. Leveraging a newly constructed, century-spanning dataset on...

We investigate the causal relationship between inventor migration and regional innovation in the context of the large-scale migration shock from East to West Germany between World War II and the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. Leveraging a newly constructed, century-spanning dataset on...

Die vorliegende Studie untersucht, ob unternehmensspezifische und unternehmensexterne Determinanten das Beschäftigungswachstum von innovativen und nicht-innovativen Unternehmen in den alten und neuen Bundesländern unterschiedlich beeinflussen. Die Ergebnisse der multivariaten Analysen zur...

The paper deals with growth determinants of innovative and noninnovative start-ups in Eastern and Western Germany. Based on theoretical approaches explaining the growth of firms, hypotheses on potential determinants are derived. The empirical results indicate strong correlations between average...