- Authors
- Anna Kremer Technische Universität Dresden#ifo Institut Dresden
- title
- Names, diversity and innovation
- Please use the following URL when quoting:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-749819
- Series
- CEPIE Working Paper
- multivolume_volume0
- 03/21
- publication_date
- 2021
- issn
- 2510-1196
- Abstract (EN)
- Diversity of a country is often measured by the amount and spread of nationalities that live there. But also within a country, regions vary in their traditions and culture. Cultural homogeneity within communities is mixed up by (internal) migration, that, like international migration, increases diversity of a place. In a novel approach I therefore look at diversity in German municipality associations measured by different family names and investigate the effect it has on the number of generated patents. I show that cultural diversity and openness of a place affect its economic performance positively in terms of innovation also when referring to intra-country differences.
- Keywords (DE)
- kulturelle Diversität, Innovation, Offenheit, Telefonbuch, Patente, lokal, Deutschland
- Keywords (EN)
- cultural diversity, innovation, openness, phone book, patents, local level, Germany
- Classification (DDC)
- 330
- Classification (RVK)
- QC 000
- university_publisher
- Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden
- corporation_other
- ifo Institut Dresden, Dresden
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-749819
- Qucosa date of publication
- 27.05.2021
- Document type
- research_paper
- Document language
- English
- licence