@techreport{Buenstorf2006bubble,
abstract = {This article studies entrepreneurial activities emerging out of one of Germany's most prominent dot.com firms: Intershop, a maker of e-commerce software. We show that Intershop spawned at least 30 spin-offs. The majority entered locally, giving rise to a small but growing software cluster and counteracting the job losses accompanying the parent firm's drastic downsizing after 2000. We trace the knowledge transfer from Intershop to the spin-offs and relate it to recent theorizing on the spin-off process as well as spin-off-based cluster formation. The Intershop case suggests that temporarily successful dot.coms could exert lasting effects on regional development.},
address = {Jena},
author = {Guido Buenstorf and Dirk Fornahl},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {R10; O18; J60; L86; 330; spin-offs; serial entrepreneurship; industry agglomeration; software industry; E-Business; Betriebsaufspaltung; Unternehmer; Regionale Konzentration; Softwareindustrie; Deutschland},
language = {eng},
number = {0620},
publisher = {Max-Planck-Inst. f\"{u}r \"{O}konomik},
title = {B2C - bubble to cluster: the dot.com boom, spin-off entrepreneurship, and regional industry evolution},
type = {Papers on economics and evolution},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/31821},
year = {2006}
}
