Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/24376 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 00-30
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
Abstract: 
Our research, based on the ZEW-Foundation Panel East, examines whether high-tech start-ups are mainly founded in scientific and infrastructural well suited regions or not. Estimation results on the level of postcode areas confirm the hypothesis that specific human capital, knowledge spillovers at higher-education institutions are more important for founding a firm in one of the high-tech sectors compared with the effects of other publicly financed institutions. The existence of large companies in the manufacturing sector has a considerable effect for start-up activities in this region in general. Moreover, high-tech start-ups are more concentrated within or near technology and foundation centres.
Subjects: 
High Technology Industries
Eastern Germany
Start-ups
entrepreneurs
JEL: 
L60
R10
L80
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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