Georg Licht

TL;DR: A regional redistribution of public R&D subsidies might improve the overall innovation output of the German economy and point towards a large degree of additionality in public R &D grants with regard to innovation input measured asR&D expenditures and innovation expenditures, as well as with regard for innovation output measured by patent applications.

TL;DR: The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by various recent papers as mentioned in this paper, using two newly available data sets for the German service sector, and using data from a survey of innovative activities in services, they show that investment in information technology has a stronger effect on the quality of services than on the productivity of the IT-using firm.

TL;DR: Although the economic importance of entrepreneurship has been formally recognized at least since the times of Schumpeter over 100 years ago, purposeful policy efforts to harness this driver of economic growth originated substantially later as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw on the NSI framework, sets it in a larger context, examines the logic of the approach and introduces the special issue by summarizing the papers presented at the conference and selected for this special issue.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse the regional distribution of start-up intensity and offer several hypotheses to explain this distribution to a large extent, the existing industry structure, regional human capital as well as the regional public traffic infrastructure, and show that liquidity constraints occur more often in small and young firms.