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Does successful innovation require large urban areas? Germany as a counterexample

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2020

environmental conditions that are absent in smaller cities or remote and rural areas. Germany provides a clear counterexample to … such theories. We argue that a main force behind the geography of innovation in Germany is the country's federal tradition …

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Shades of a socialist legacy? Innovation activity in East and West Germany 1877-2014

Fritsch, Michael; Greve, Maria; Wyrwich, Michael - 2023

. In this process, the poorly functioning socialist system of East Germany adopted the formal institutions and organization … of West Germany, a western-style market economy. We investigate the effect of this integration on patenting activity by …, the gap between East and West Germany widened considerably over time. This divergence in innovation activity suggests that …

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Industry specialization, diversity and the efficiency of regional innovation systems

Fritsch, Michael; Slavtchev, Viktor - 2007

Innovation processes are characterized by a pronounced division of labor between actors. Two types of externality may arise from such interactions. On the one hand, a close location of actors affiliated to the same industry may stimulate innovation (MAR externalities). On the other hand, new...

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Prior knowledge and entrepreneurial innovative success

Cantner, Uwe; Goethner, Maximilian; Meder, Andreas - 2007

This paper is concerned with the relationship between innovative success of entrepreneurs and their prior knowledge at the stage of firm formation. We distinguish between different kinds of experience an entrepreneur can possess and find evidence that the innovative success subsequent to firm...

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Measuring regional innovativeness: a methodological discussion and an application to one German industry

Broekel, Tom; Brenner, Thomas - 2007

arguments and apply it to the Electrics & Electronics industry in Germany. …

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Firms' differential innovative success and market dynamics

Cantner, Uwe - 2007

This paper deals with innovative activities of firms, the resulting market success as well as the interdependencies between both. In a first theoretical part, different cases of those interdependencies are investigated by the way of a simple model based on replicator dynamics. It is shown that...

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Functional chains of knowledge management: effects on firms' innovative performance

Cantner, Uwe; Joel, Kristin - 2007

The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of Knowledge Management (KM) for the innovation success of firms. It is assumed that the functional chains of KM lead directly and indirectly to more innovative success via enhancing the recombination of internal and external knowledge assets. To...

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Growth, development and structural change of innovator networks: the case of Jena

Cantner, Uwe; Graf, Holger - 2007

We attempt to extend the static analysis of innovator networks by providing case study based insights into the dynamic, developmental or evolutionary pattern of such networks. In the theoretical part, we develop some building blocs that are considered central to a theory of network evolution....

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Demography and innovative entrepreneurship

Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2007

Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or...

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Creating strategic advantage through entrepreneurial governance in new ventures

Audretsch, David B.; Lehmann, Erik E.; Plummer, Lawrence A. - 2007

An important literature has made a fundamental link between corporate governance and corporate strategy. According to agency theory, assigning managers stock options aligns their interests with the interests of the owners of the firm. This paper suggests that this may not apply in the context of...

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