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The Impact of Government Procurement Composition on Private R&D Activities

Slavtchev, Viktor; Wiederhold, Simon - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper addresses the question of whether government procurement can work as a de facto innovation policy tool. We develop an endogenous growth model with quality-improving innovation that incorporates industries with heterogeneous innovation sizes. Government demand in high-tech industries...

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Government Spending Composition in a Simple Model of Schumpeterian Growth

Wiederhold, Simon - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper investigates the relevance of government purchasing behavior for innovation-based economic growth. We construct a parsimonious Schumpeterian growth model in which demand from the public sphere can effectively alter the economy's rate of technological change. We incorporate results of...

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Dynamics of Collaborative Invention Tracking Growth of Cooperative and Total Patents in the Region

Bürger, Matthias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The paper targets the relationship between growth of cooperation and later growth of innovation at the regional level. Patent data for German regions and eleven subsequent years is used to identify collaborative activity as well as the innovative output in each region. The results confirm to...

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Bohemians, Human Capital, and Regional Economic Growth

Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region's lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains geographic disparities in economic growth. However, to date, there has...

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Creative Industries, New Business Formation and Regional Economic Growth

Piergiovanni, Roberta; Carree, Martin; Santarelli, Enrico - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The present study explores the impact exerted by a series of factors and processes including creativity, IPR activities, new business formation and the provision of amenities on economic growth for 103 Italian provinces (NUTS 3) over the period between 2001 and 2006. Provincial growth rates are...

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Entrepreneurship,Growth, Regional Growth Regimes

Fritsch, Michael; Kublina, Sandra - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

We distinguish four types of regional growth regimes based on the type of relationship between new business formation and economic development. The distinguishing characteristics of these regime types are analyzed in order to identify the reasons for different growth performance. Although growth...

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The Long Persistence of Regional Entrepreneurship Culture: Germany 1925-2005

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

We investigate the persistence of levels of self-employment and new business formation in different time periods and under different framework conditions. The analysis shows that high levels of regional self-employment and new business formation tend to be persistent for periods as long as 80...

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The Effect of Regional Entrepreneurship Culture on Economic Development - Evidence for Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We use the historical self-employment rate as an indicator of a regional culture of entrepreneurship and link this measure to economic growth in recent periods. The results indicate that German regions with a high level of entrepreneurship in the mid- 1920s have higher start-up rates about 80...

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The Localization of Entrepreneurship Capital - Evidence from Germany

Audretsch, David B.; Keilbach, Max - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Whereas initially physical capital and later, knowledge capital were viewed as crucial for growth, more recently a very different factor, entrepreneurship capital, has emerged as a driving force of economic growth. In this paper, we define a region's capacity to create new firms start-ups as the...

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EMU Enlargement: Which Concept of Convergence to Apply?

Freytag, Andreas - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

(EMU), depending on the individual state of convergence of the accession candidates. As a political rather than an economic … decision on EMU enlargement is not beyond imagination, we argue that institutional convergence, in particular central bank … convergence, as it indicates an appropriate policy assignment and thereby fosters real and nominal convergence. The paper starts …

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