We analyze the influence of two contradicting settings on the success in the academic spin-off creation process. Scientists, who are embedded in the academic setting, have to reach out and adapt to the logics of the commercial setting to successfully found their firm. However, along this...

With its Leading-Edge Cluster Competition (in German: Spitzencluster-Wettbewerb; LECC), the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF) is supporting innovation clusters in a nationwide contest for the first time. In three rounds, 15 cluster...

Der Spitzencluster-Wettbewerb bildet ein Kernstück der Hightech-Strategie der Bundesregierung. Im Rahmen des Wettbewerbs werden im Zeitraum von 2008 bis 2017 für 15 ausgewählte Cluster insgesamt 600 Millionen Euro an öffentlichen Mitteln durch das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung...