The paper provides an outline of the concept of regional growth regimes andempirically illustrates the relevance of the concept. The empirical examples areentrepreneurship, entry and the performance of new businesses in East andWest Germany. The differences of the factors determining the...

We investigate the impact of new business formation on regional employment. The maineffects occur after a considerable time lag. Obviously, a large part of the effect is not due tojob creation by the newcomers but rather is of indirect nature. This implies that a large part ofthe debate about...

Diese Arbeit analysiert die Verteilung von technischer Effizienz innerhalb von Branchen des Verarbeitenden Gewerbes. Die technische Effizienz wird als fir-menspezifischer fixer Effekt im Rahmen einer deterministischen Frontier-Pro-duktionsfunktion ermittelt. Als Grundlage hierfür dienen Angaben...

Using micro-level panel data of about 35,000 firms from the German Cost StructureCensus, we analyze the differences of technical efficiency across industries. Technicalefficiency is estimated by firms’ fixed effects. One striking result is that the distribution oftechnical efficiency across...

The paper deals with the significant impact of location on innovation activity that has been found in many empirical studies. Main elements of such an explanation are the specific problems of a division of innovative labor. Based on an outline of these issues the concept of a regional innovation...

Der Beitrag behandelt den Einfluss des Gründungsgeschehens auf die regionale Entwicklung. Viele dieser Wirkungen sind indirekter Natur und müssen sich nicht notwendig in der Region niederschlagen, in der die Gründung stattfand. Empirische Analysen für westdeutsche Regionen zeigen, dass nur...

This paper investigates interregional differences in cooperative behavior ofmanufacturing establishments in the field of research and development (R&D).The empirical analysis for eleven European regions reveals a number ofsignificant differences between these regions in the propensity to...

Literature suggests that location should matter for R&D activities. However, attempts to empirically detect differences in innovation activity between regions have so far been rather unsuccessful. Using a unique data set which contains comparable information about manufacturing enterprises in...

We investigate whether the supply of Venture Capital (VC) in Germany is driven by spatial influences. The study is based on information from more than 300 VC investments made in Germany between 2004 and 2005. We find evidence that the geographical distance between a VC company and the portfolio...

We investigate the effects of new business formation on employment change in German regions. A special focus is on the lag-structure of this effect and on differences between regions. The different phases of the effects of new business formation on regional development are relatively pronounced...