Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurship Across Regions: Does Being a New Industry Make a Difference?

Michael Wyrwich

Chapter Chapter 2 in Applied Regional Growth and Innovation Models, 2014, pp 15-34 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) and especially non-technical professional KIBS firms fulfill a cross-divisional function in the knowledge-based development of economies and provide their clients customized, high-value services. Moreover, KIBS produce and diffuse knowledge and oversee markets. Their consultancy support helps firms to exploit their own knowledge potential (e.g., Miles et al. 1995; Muller and Zenker 2001; Wood 2002). Accordingly, understanding where and why KIBS firms locate is helpful in advising policy makers to foster the establishment of knowledge-intensive industries as a prerequisite to designing a knowledge-based economy.

Keywords: Knowledge Spillover; German Democratic Republic; Entrepreneurial Opportunity; Employment Share; Regional Innovation System (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-37819-5_2

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