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Determinants of Innovative Activity in Newly Founded Knowledge Intensive Business Service Firms
Innovative activity is performed to a considerable extent in the service sector, namely within the socalled knowledge intensive business services (KIBS). Nevertheless, little is known about the determinants of innovative activity in these firms. In the present paper, some of these determinants are examined on the basis of a recently created dataset of 547 newly founded German firms (KIBS Foundation Survey 2003). The results show that the access to knowledge through cooperation and networking is an important factor determining innovative activity in the KIBS sector, whereas, surprisingly, neither managerial characteristics nor spatial proximity have general influence.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IAW Diskussionspapiere ; No. 21
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Industry Studies: Services: Other
Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Koch, Andreas
Strotmann, Harald
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Veröffentlichung
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Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (IAW)
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Tübingen
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2005
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Koch, Andreas
- Strotmann, Harald
- Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (IAW)
Time of origin
- 2005
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