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47/2025: Task allocation and innovation: Revisiting the role of vocational education and training in manufacturing firms

Eike Matthies and Jörg Thomä

46/2024: Pass or fail? Identifying European best practice regions of university-centered knowledge transfer for sustainability transformations

Thekla Dekkera and Louisa Jantos

45/2024: Measuring non-R&D drivers of innovation: The case of SMEs in lagging regions

Leonie Reher, Petrik Runst, Jörg Thomä and Kilian Bizer

44/2024: Removing barriers for sustainability: A qualitative cross-country analysis of entrepreneurial ecosystem attributes in Israel and Germany

Louisa Jantos, Philipp Bäumle and Daniel Feser

43/2024: The R&D Risk-Return Trade-Off: Exploring the Diversity of Young Innovative Firms

Petrik Runst and Jörg Thomä

42/2023: Solving the puzzle? An innovation mode perspective on lagging regions

Tobias Hädrich, Leonie Reher and Jörg Thomä

41/2023: Spatial heterogeneity in the effect of regional trust on innovation

Thore Sören Bischoff, Petrik Runst and Kilian Bizer

40/2023: Beauty attracts the eye but personality captures the heart … of digital transformation in crafts SMEs

Thore Sören Bischoff and Anita Thonipara

38/2023: Personality and self-employment: A journey into the craft's way of doing business

Petrik Runst and Jörg Thomä

39/2022: Personality and regional innovativeness: An empirical analysis of German patent data

Leonie Reher, Petrik Runst and Jörg Thomä

37/2022: An urban-rural divide (or not?): Small firm location and the use of digital technologies

Jörg Thomä

36/2022: A resource-based analysis of strategic alliances between knowledge intermediaries in regional innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems

Philipp Bäumle and Kilian Bizer

35/2022: The roles of knowledge intermediaries in sustainability transitions and digitalization: Academia driven fostering of socio technical transitions?

Philipp Bäumle, Daniel Hirschmann and Daniel Feser

34/2022: Resilient entrepreneurs? Revisiting the relationship between the Big Five and self-employment

Petrik Runst and Jörg Thomä

33/2022: A hidden source of innovation? Revisiting the impact of initial vocational training on technological innovation

Eike Matthies, Jörg Thomä and Kilian Bizer

32/2022: Firm innovation and generalized trust as a regional resource

Thore Sören Bischoff, Ann Hipp and Petrik Runst

6 (2016): The Effect of Occupational Licensing Deregulation on Migrants in the German Skilled Crafts Sector

Petrik Runst

31/2022: From automation to databased business models - digitalization and its links to innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises

Jörg Thomä and Thore S. Bischoff

30/2022: Does initial vocational training foster innovativeness at the company level? Evidence from German establishment data

Eike Matthies, Katarzyna Haverkamp, Jörg Thomä and Kilian Bizer

29/2021: Quasi-carbon taxation - The German eco tax and its impact on CO₂ emissions

Petrik Runst and David Höhle

28/2021: Institutional conditions for the up-take of governance experiments - A comparative case study

Daniel Feser, Simon Winkler-Portmann, Thore Sören Bischoff, Dierk Bauknecht, Kilian Bizer, Martin Führ, Dirk Arne Heyen, Till Proeger, Kaja von der Leyen and Moritz Vogel

27/2020: Experience-based know-how, learning and innovation in German SMEs: An explorative analysis of the role of know-how in different modes of innovation

Harm Alhusen

26/2020: Kooperationsstrukturen für die Regionalentwicklung - Erfahrungen aus Südniedersachsen

Philipp Bäumle, Kilian Bizer and Till Proeger

25/2020: Assessing the Digital Divide and its Regional Determinants: Evidence from a Web-Scraping Analysis

Anita Thonipara, Rolf Sternberg, Till Proeger and Lukas Haefner

24/2020: Does Personality Matter? Small Business Owners and Modes of Innovation

Petrik Runst and Jörg Thomä

23/2019: Measuring the "doing-using-interacting mode" of innovation in SMEs - A qualitative approach

Harm Alhusen, Tatjana Bennat, Kilian Bizer, Uwe Cantner, Elaine Horstmann, Martin Kalthaus, Till Proeger, Rolf Sternberg and Stefan Töpfer

22/2019: Exploring the pathways: Regulatory experiments for Sustainable Development - An interdisciplinary approach

Dierk Bauknecht, Thore Bischoff, Kilian Bizer, Dirk Arne Heyen, Martin Führ, Peter Gailhofer, Till Proeger and Kaja von der Leyen

21/2019: Innovation modes in SMEs: Mechanisms integrating STI-processes into DUI-mode learning and the role of regional innovation policy

Harm Alhusen and Tatjana Bennat

20/2019: Digitization and knowledge spillover effectiveness: Evidence from the "German Mittelstand"

Till Proeger and Petrik Runst

19/2019: Dosis facit effectum: Why the scope of the carbon tax matters - Evidence from the Swedish residential sector

Petrik Runst and Anita Thonipara

18/2019: Can APPealing and more informative bills "nudge" individuals into conserving electricity?

Lukas Meub, Petrik Runst and Kaja von der Leyen

17/2019: Non-R&D, interactive learning and economic performance: Revisiting innovation in small and medium enterprises

Jörg Thomä and Volker Zimmermann

16/2018: Are estimates of the "natural experiment" in the German crafts sector causal?

Kaja Fredriksen and Petrik Runst

15/2018: Asymmetrische Information auf dem Handwerksmarkt – eine qualitative Analyse

Li Kathrin Rupieper and Till Proeger

14/2018: Does occupational deregulation affect in-company vocational training? – Evidence from the 2004 Reform of the German Trade and Crafts Code

Petrik Runst and Jörg Thomä

13/2018: Ökonomische Effekte der Deregulierung der Handwerksordnung im Jahr 2004

Petrik Runst, Kaja Fredriksen, Till Proeger, Kilian Bizer, Katarzyna Haverkamp, Klaus Müller and Jörg Thomä

11 (2018): Does occupational licensing impact incomes? - The German crafts case

Kaja Fredriksen

5 (2016): Economic Effects of Deregulation - Using the Example of the Revised Trade and Crafts Code 2004

Klaus Müller

9 (2017): Betriebliche Ausbildungsbeteiligung ‐ eine veränderte Anreizkonstellation durch die Handwerksnovelle 2004?

Jörg Thomä

4 (2016): A comment on the adoption of energy-efficiency-measures within firms - Energy costs and firm heterogeneity

Petrik Runst

2 (2017): A replication of ‘Entry regulation and entrepreneurship: a natural experiment in German craftsmanship’

Petrik Runst, Jörg Thomä, Katarzyna Haverkamp and Klaus Müller

7 (2017): DUI mode learning and barriers to innovation - the case of Germany

Jörg Thomä

12/2018: Energy Efficiency of Residential Buildings in the European Union – An Exploratory Analysis of Cross-Country Consumption Patterns

Anita Thonipara, Petrik Runst, Christian Ochsner and Kilian Bizer

3 (2017): Masterful Meisters? Voluntary Certification and Quality in the German Crafts Sector

Kaja Fredriksen, Petrik Runst and Kilian Bizer

8 (2017): Networks and Firm Performance: A Case Study of Vietnamese Small and Medium Enterprises

Hung D. Pham, Petrik Runst and Kilian Bizer

10 (2017): Energieeffizienz im europäischen Wohngebäudesektor

Petrik Runst, Anita Thonipara, Christian Ochsner and Ralph Henger

1 (2015): Energy efficiency consultants as change agents? Examining the reasons for EECs’ limited success

Daniel Feser and Petrik Runst