Industrialization is central if any economy is to be successful and the policy attempts at industrialization involve creating systems and institutional arrangements that can help accelerate the process of industrialization. Business incubation is also a system and an institutional arrangement to...

Prior research has shown that early development of marketing capabilities enable firms to achieve competitive advantage. The entrepreneurial orientation of the firm acts as a catalyst and impacts the market orientation and the marketing capabilities of the firm in a positive way. A high level of...

We argue two alternative routes that lead entrepreneurial start-ups to acquisition outcomes instead of liquidation. On one hand, acquisitions can come about through the control route with external financers such as venture capitalists (VCs). VCs take control through their board seats along with...

The innovative and sustainable economic development of a country depends not only on the presence of a strong government, universities and industries but more so on how they mutually interact for strategic objectives. The evolution of these interactions has given rise to science parks,...

We analyse the economic impacts of place-based policies that aim to enhance economic development by stimulating growth and productivity of firms in designated areas. We use unique panel data from China with information on manufacturing firms’ production factors, productivity and location, and...

Innovationscluster werden gemeinhin als Instrument zur Steigerung der Innovations- und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Regionen gesehen. Dieses Arbeitspapier widmet sich der Frage, wie der Erfolg von Innovationsclustern durch ein effektives Management erhöht werden kann. Dabei wurden in einer...

Diese Studie analysiert und konzipiert die Entwicklung einer Arbeitgebermarke als Instrument zur Rekrutierung und Bindung von Softwareentwicklern für einen Berliner Inkubator in der Online- und Mobile-Gaming Branche. Die Studie macht anhand eines Praxisfalls deutlich, welche Elemente benötigt...

The fact that there are major differences between one incubator and another has resulted in many authors working on multiple typologies. Although these typologies are relatively common in the literature, they all tend to use the same classification criteria (objectives of the structures,...

Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden die Unternehmensaktivitäten des TechnologieZentrum Koblenz (TZK) seit Gründung analysiert. Insbesondere werden die Entwicklungsverläufe der einzelnen Unternehmen des TZK über die Jahre analysiert und untersucht, in welchem Maße die Unternehmen des TZK zur...

The process of open innovation / Arthur B. Markman -- Open innovation through strategic design-by-analogy / Katherine Fu and Christian Schunn -- Getting the most out of brainstorming groups / Paul B. Paulus, Jubilee Dickson, Runa Korde, Ravit Cohen-Meitar, and Abraham Carmeli -- Applying the...