A new DRUID Working Paper has been put online. It is paper co-authored with Toke Reichstein, Bernd Ebersberger and Morten Berg Jensen. We study how firm growth can be studied better with the use of quantile regression techniques. We estimate the growth pattern of 9,000 firms to illustrate this.
My paper with Toke Reichstein, "Are You Experienced? Prior Experience and the Survival of New Firms", has been accepted for publication in the international peer-reviewed journal, Industry and Innovation. It analyses the relationship between general industry experience and the type of firms in which the experience is achieved and how this influences the survival probabilities of new firms. It is expected to be published in the journal in the December 2007 issue.
Michael S. Dahl and Toke Reichstein (2007), "Are You Experienced? Prior Experience and the Survival of New Organizations", Industry and Innovation. Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 497-511. ISSN: 1366-2716.
I am very much honored to receive the Tietgen Gold Medal Research Award 2006 for my Post-Doc research. The Tietgen Gold Medal is awarded to younger Post-Doc researchers, which have completed a significant degree of internationally published research within business and economics.
C. F. Tietgen was one of the great forces behind the industrial revolution in Denmark. He was behind a number of the greatest corporations at the time. Many of which still exist today, notably GN Store Nord, Danisco, Tuborg, DFDS and Burmeister & Wain.
The award is administred by the Danish Society for the Advancement of Business Education [Foreningen for Unge Handelsmænds Uddannelse] and its Danish Business Research Academy [Dansk Erhvervsforskningsakademi].
The Gold Medal is accompanied with 100,000 Danish Kroner (€13,500 / $16,500) to support a longer visit at an international university.
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I am very much honored to receive the Spar Nord Foundation Research Award 2005 based on my PhD thesis, “Knowledge Diffusion and Regional Clusters: Lessons from the Danish ICT Industry” and the journal publications coming from this thesis.
The Spar Nord Foundation gives this annual research award to particularly outstanding doctoral work completed at Aalborg University by a young researcher.
I have released a new DRUID working paper co-authored with Christian Ø. R. Pedersen and Bent Dalum. It is called "Entrepreneurial Founder Effects in the Growth of Regional Clusters " and it is a focused and improved version of our case study of spin-offs in the wireless communication industry around Aalborg in North Denmark from 2003.
Abstract
How can the growth of regional clusters be explained? This paper studies in great detail the growth of the wireless communication cluster in Northern Denmark. Unlike the dominant theories, we argue that initial success of the first firms are the main driving force behind the generation of new firms that eventually lead to the formation of clusters. The success of the first firms tend to generate spinoffs, which becomes successful themselves due to the background of the founders.
Michael S. Dahl and Christian Ø. R. Pedersen (now Christian R. Østergaard)
Whether social networks diffuse knowledge across firm boundaries has been the topic of much debate. To inform these theories, this article considers two questions. First, who has contacts across firm boundaries? And second, when do these relations diffuse knowledge? Our empirical evidence comes from a survey of 346 engineers in the wireless communication industry around Aalborg in Northern Denmark. Our analysis finds that social contact between these engineers is frequent and is used to diffuse knowledge that receivers find useful. More experienced engineers are more likely to receive valuable knowledge from their networks. These findings show that the long-term relationships, which are more likely based on trust and reputation, are also more likely to be a channel valuable knowledge.
Michael S. Dahl and Christian Ø. R. Pedersen (2005), “Social Networks in the R&D Process: The Case of the Wireless Communication Industry Around Aalborg, Denmark”, Journal of Engineering and Technology Management. Vol. 22, No. 1-2, pp. 75-92. ISSN: 0923-4748. [DOI Link]
A paper with Christian Ø. R. Pedersen and Bent Dalum has been accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed journal INFO. This journal is fairly unknown, but specializes in articles on the economic, social, political and regulatory aspects of the telecommunications industry. We have contributed to a special issue on the strong Nordic telecommunications industry with scholars from Sweden and Finland. Our contribution, "The Danish ICT Industry: A Mismatch between Demand and Supply" is a rather descriptive account for the characteristics, strengths and weaknesses of this industry in Denmark.
Christian Ø. R. Pedersen, Michael S. Dahl and Bent Dalum (2006), "The Danish ICT Sector in an International Perspective: A Mismatch between Demand and Supply", Info. Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 85-99. ISSN: 1463-6697.
I have written a new paper (with Christian Ø. R. Pedersen) on the characteristics of social networks in the R&D process. It is a more general follow up on our paper from 2003 on informal networks in clusters (recently published in Research Policy), where more advanced techniques have been applied on the NorCOM Survey in a more general context. Comments from my PhD committee have been incorporated in this new paper, which has now been published in the Elsevier.
Michael S. Dahl and Christian Ø. R. Pedersen (2005), "Social Networks in the R&D Process: The Case of the Wireless Communication Industry Around Aalborg, Denmark", Journal of Engineering and Technology Management. Vol. 22, No. 1-2, pp. 75-92. ISSN: 0923-4748.
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