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| Title: | | B2C - bubble to cluster: the dot.com boom, spin-off entrepreneurship, and regional industry evolution  |
| Authors: | | Buenstorf, Guido Fornahl, Dirk |
| Issue Date: | | 2006 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Papers on economics and evolution 0620 |
| 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. |
| Subjects: | | spin-offs serial entrepreneurship industry agglomeration software industry |
| JEL: | | R10 O18 J60 L86 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Papers on Economics and Evolution, MPI für Ökonomik
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