Publications

  • Buenstorf, G., U. Cantner, H. Hanusch, M. Hutter, H.-W. Lorenz and F. Rahmeyer (eds.): The Two Sides of Innovation. Creation and Destruction in the Evolution of Capitalist Economies , Berlin: Springer, 2013.
  • Buenstorf, G. (ed.): Evolution, Organization and Economic Behavior. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2012.

  • Asanov, I., Asanov, A.-M., Åstebro, T., Buenstorf, G., Crépon, B., McKenzie, D., Flores, F. P., Mensmann, M., Schulte, M. (2023). System-, teacher-, and student-level interventions for improving participation in online learning at scale in high schools. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(30): e2216686120.

  • Asanov, A.-M., Asanov, I., and Buenstorf, G. (2023). Mental health and stress level of Ukrainians seeking psychological help online. Heliyon, 9: e21933.

  • Asanov, I., & Mavlikeeva, M. (2023). Can group identity explain the gender gap in the recruitment process? Industrial Relations Journal, 54(1), 95-113.

  • Bartsch, S., Buenstorf, G., Otto, A., & Theissen, M. (2023). Are employment trajectories of STEM doctoral degree holders gender-specific? Evidence from a large German technical university. Soziale Welt, in press.

  • Büchele, S., Feudel, F. (2023). Changes in Students’ Mathematical Competencies at the Beginning of Higher Education Within the Last Decade at a German University. International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, online first.

  • Büchele, S. (2023). Navigating success in higher education: engagement as a mediator between learning strategies and performance in mathematics. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, online first.

  • Buenstorf, G., Koenig, J., & Otto, A. (2023). Expansion of doctoral training and doctorate recipients’ labour market outcomes: evidence from German register data. Studies in Higher Education, 48(8): 1216-1242.

  • Cantner, U., Bertschek, I., Buenstorf, G., Häussler, C., Requate, T. and Welter, F. (2023): Gesundheitswirtschaft in der digitalen Transformation. Wirtschaftsdienst, 103(7), 460-466.

  • Cantner, Uwe, Philip Doerr, Maximilian Goethner, Matthias Hügel, Martin Kalthaus (2023). A procedural perspective on academic spin-off creation: The changing relative importance of the academic and the commercial sphere. Small Business Economics, online first.

  • Buenstorf, G., Heinisch, D. P., Kapa, M. (2022). International doctoral graduates as inventors in the German innovation system. Industry and Innovation, 29(4), 488–510.

  • Buenstorf, G., Guenther, C., Wilfling, S. (2022). Submarket emergence, customer base expansion and strategic entry timing in the evolution of the German farm tractor industry. Industrial and Corporate Change, 31(4), 1086–1112.

  • Gläser, J., Ash, M., Buenstorf, G., Hopf, D., Hubenschmid, L., Janßen, M., Laudel, G., Schimank, U., Stoll, M., Wiltholt, T., Zechlin, L. and Lieb, K. (2022). The independence of research—a review of disciplinary perspectives and outline of interdisciplinary prospects. Minerva, 60(1), 105–138.

  • Ozgun, B., & Broekel, T. (2022). Assessing press releases as a data source for spatial research. Region, 9(2), 25-44.

  • Asanov, I. (2021). Bandit cascade: A test of observational learning in the bandit problem. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 189, 150-171.

  • Broström, A., G. Buenstorf, M. McKelvey (2021). The knowledge economy, innovation and the new challenges to universities: introduction to the special issue. Innovation, 23(2), 145-162.
  • Geissler, M., and J. König (2021). See you soon?! Mobility,competition and free-riding in decentralized higher education financing. Regional Studies, 55(4), 665-678.
  • Gifford, E., G. Buenstorf, D. Ljungberg, M. McKelvey and O. Zaring (2021). Variety in founder experience and the performance of knowledge-intensive innovative firms. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 31(2), 677-713.
  • Inal, V., and N. M. Kılıçkan (2021). Refugee Scholars of the 1930s and the erman Contribution to the Development of Economics in Turkey. Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 23 (2), 283-300.
  • Koopmann, T., Stubbemann, M., Kapa, M., Paris, M., Buenstorf, G., Hanika, T., Hotho, A., Jäschke, R and Stumme, G. (2021). Proximity dimensions and the emergence of collaboration: a HypTrails study on German AI research. Scientometrics, 126(12), 9847–9868.
  • Rehs, A. (2021). A supervised machine learning approach to author disambiguation in the Web of Science. Journal of Informetrics, 15(3), 101166.
  • Asanov, I., and S. Vannuccini (2020): "Short- and Long-run Effects of External Interventions on Trust", Review of Behavioral Economics, 7(2), 159–195.
  • Asanov, I., F. Flores, D. J. McKenzie, M. Mensmann and M. Schulte (2020): "Remote-learning, Time-Use, and Mental Health of Ecuadorian High-School Students during the COVID-19 Quarantine", World Development, 138, 105225.
  • Bode, R., G. Buenstorf and D. P. Heinisch (2020): "Proximity and learning: evidence from a post-WW2 intellectual reparations program", Journal of Economic Geography, 20(3), 601-628.
  • Brunnström, L., G. Buenstorf and M. McKelvey (2020): "Exploring the Role(s) of Researcher-Based Projects in Swedish University Incubators", Academy of Management Proceedings, 101.
  • Buenstorf, G., and J. König (2020): “Interrelated funding streams in a multi-funder university system: evidence from the German Exzellenzinitiative”, Research Policy 49(3), 103924.
  • Buenstorf, G., and D. P. Heinisch (2020): “When do firms get ideas from hiring PhDs?” Research Policy, 49(3), 103913.
  • Buenstorf, G., and D. P. Heinisch (2020): “Science and industry evolution: Evidence from the first 50 years of the German laser industry”, Small Business Economics, 54(2), 523-538.
  • Heinisch, D. P., J. König and A. Otto (2020): "A supervised machine learning approach to trace doctorate recipients’ employment trajectories", Quantitative Science Studies, 1 (1), 94-116.
  • Mavlikeeva, M. (2020): "Assessing the ethnic employment gap during the early stages of COVID-19", Covid Economics, (49), 222–236.
  • Rehs, A. (2020): "A structural topic model approach to scientific reorientation of economics and chemistry after German reunification", Scientometrics, 125 (2), 1229–1251.
  • Bruns, S. B., J. König and D. I. Stern (2019): "Replication and robustness analysis of ‘energy and economic growth in the USA. A multivariate approach’", Energy Economics, 82, 100–113.
  • Bruns, S. B., I. Asanov, R. Bode, M. Dunger, C. Funk, S. M. Hassan, J.Hauschildt, D. Heinisch, K. Kempa, J. König, J. Lips, M. Verbeck, E. Wolfschütz and G. Buenstorf (2019): “Reporting errors and biases in published empirical findings: Evidence from innovation research“, Research Policy, 48(9): 103796.
  • Binder, M., and G. Buenstorf (2018): “Smile or die: Can subjective well-being increase survival in the face of substantive health impairments?” Economics and Human Biology, 31: 209–227.
  • Buenstorf, G., and C. Costa (2018): “Drivers of spin-off performance in industry clusters: Embodied knowledge or embedded firms?” Research Policy, 47(3): 663-673.
  • Koenig, J., T. Brenner and G. Buenstorf (2017): “Regional effects of university funding: Excellence at the cost of regional disparity?”, Review of Regional Research, 37: 111–133.
  • Buenstorf, G., K. Nielsen and B. Timmermans (2017): “Steve Jobs or No Jobs? Entrepreneurial activity and performance among Danish college dropouts and graduates”, Small Business Economics, 48(1): 179–197.
  • Buenstorf, G., C. Engel, S. Fischer and W. Gueth (2016): “Non-compete clauses, employee effort and spin-off entrepreneurship: A laboratory experiment”, Research Policy, 45(10): 2113–2124.
  • Buenstorf, G. (2016): "Schumpeterian incumbents and industry evolution." Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 26(4): 823-836.
  • Buenstorf, G., M. Geissler and S. Krabel (2016): “Locations of labor market entry by German university graduates: is (regional) beauty in the eye of the beholder?”, Review of Regional Research, 36(1): 29-49.
  • Heinisch, D., Ö. Nomaler, G. Buenstorf, K. Frenken and H. Lintsen (2016): “Same place, same knowledge – same people? The geography of non-patent citations in Dutch polymer patents”, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 25(6): 553-572.
  • Blankenberg, A. K., and G. Buenstorf (2016): “Regional co-evolution of firm population, innovation and public research? Evidence from the West German laser industry.” Research Policy, 45(4): 857-868.

  • Bruns, S. B., & Ioannidis, J. P. (2016). P-curve and p-hacking in observational research. PloS one, 11(2), e0149144.

  • Bruns, S. B., & Stern, D. I. (2016). Research assessment using early citation information. Scientometrics, 108(2), 917-935.

  • Agarwal, R., G. Buenstorf, W. M. Cohen and F. Malerba (2015): “The legacy of Steven Klepper: industry evolution, entrepreneurship, and geography”, Industrial and Corporate Change, 24(4): 739-753.
  • Buenstorf, G., M. Fritsch and L. F. Medrano (2015): “Regional knowledge, organizational capabilities, and the emergence of the West German laser systems industry, 1975–2005”, Regional Studies, 49(1): 59-75. 

  • Winterhager, N., & Krücken, G. (2015). The local ‘war for talent’–recruitment of recent tertiary education graduates from a regional perspective: some evidence from the German case. European Journal of Higher Education, 5(2), 127-140.

  • Schoen, A., D. Heinisch and G. Buenstorf (2014): “Playing the ‘Name Game’ to identify academic patents in Germany”, Scientometrics, 101(1): 527-545.
  • Buenstorf, G. and M. Geissler (2014): “Like Doktorvater, like son? Tracing role model learning in the evolution of German laser research”, Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik (Journal of Economics and Statistics), 234: 158-184.

  • Krabel, S., & Flöther, C. (2014). Here today, gone tomorrow? Regional labour mobility of German university graduates. Regional Studies, 48(10), 1609-1627.

  • Schoen, A. and G. Buenstorf (2013): When do universities own their patents? An explorative study of patent characteristics and organizational determinants in Germany. Industry and Innovation, 20: 422–437.
  • Buenstorf, G. and A. Schacht (2013): “We need to talk - or do we? Geographic distance and the commercialization of technologies from public research”, Research Policy, 42: 465– 480.
  • Buenstorf, G., M. Fritsch and L. F. Medrano (2012): “Regionales Wissen und die räumliche Evolution der westdeutschen Lasersystem-Branche”, Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeografie, 56: 147-167. (modified German-language version of Buenstorf, Fritsch and Medrano (2015))
  • Buenstorf, G. and M. Geissler (2012): “Not invented here: Technology licensing, knowledge transfer and innovation based on public research”, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 22: 481–511.
  • Von Proff, S., G. Buenstorf and M. Hummel (2012): “University patenting in Germany before and after 2002: What role did the professors’ privilege play?” Industry and Innovation, 19: 23-44.
  • Buenstorf, G. and M. Geissler (2011): “The origins of entrants and the geography of the German laser industry”, Papers in Regional Science, 90: 251-270.
  • Buenstorf, G. and C. Guenther (2011): “No place like home? Relocation, capabilities, and firm survival in the German machine tool industry after World War II”, Industrial and Corporate Change, 20: 1-28.
  • Buenstorf, G. and S. Klepper (2010): “Why does entry cluster geographically? Evidence from the U.S.´tire industry”, Journal of Urban Economics, 68: 103-114.
  • Buenstorf, G. and S. Klepper (2010): “Submarket dynamics and innovation: The case of the U.S. tire industry”, Industrial and Corporate Change, 19: 1563-1587.
  • Buenstorf, G. (2009): “Is commercialization good or bad for science? Individual-level evidence from the Max Planck Society”, Research Policy, 38: 281-292.
  • Buenstorf, G. (2009): “Opportunity spin-offs and necessity spin-offs”, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing, 1: 22-40.
  • Buenstorf, G. and D. Fornahl (2009): “B2C - Bubble to cluster: The dot.com boom, spin-off entrepreneurship, and regional agglomeration”, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 19: 349-378. 
  • Buenstorf, G. and S. Klepper (2009): “Heritage and agglomeration: the Akron tyre cluster revisited”, The Economic Journal, 119: 705-733.
  • Buenstorf, G.: “Introduction”, in: Buenstorf, G. (ed.): Evolution, Organization and Economic Behavior. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2012, pp. 1-20.
  • Buenstorf, G. and M. Habekost: “Vom Kombinat zum Mittelstand: Unternehmens-Spin-offs in der ostdeutschen Systemtransformation”, in: C. Dreger, R. Kosfeld and M. Türck (eds.): Empirische Regionalforschung heute. Wiesbaden: Gabler, 2011, pp. 235-257.
  • Breschi, S., C. Lenzi, F. Malerba, M. L. Mancusi, G. Buenstorf, M. McKelvey, P. Llerena and K. Bishop. “New innovators and knowledge-based entrepreneurship: Field analysis”, in: F. Malerba (ed.): Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurship and Innovation Systems: Evidence from Europe. London: Routledge, 2010, pp. 179-197.
  • Buenstorf, G.: “Knowledge-based entrepreneurship and international technology transfer in the German laser industry”, in: F. Malerba (ed.): Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurship and Innovation Systems: Evidence from Europe. London: Routledge, 2010, pp. 243-264.
  • König, J., A. Otto, G. Buenstorf, K. Briedis, F. Cordua and H. Schirmer (2021): "Karriereentscheidungen und Karriereverläufe Promovierter – zur Multifunktionalität der Promotion", Studien im Rahmen des Bundesberichts Wissenschaftlicher Nachwuchs (BuWiN) 2021.
  • Blume, L., T. Brenner, G. Buenstorf and J. König (2020): "Räumliche Implikationen verstärkter Drittmittelorientierung in der Hochschulfinanzierung", In: R. D. Postlep, L. Blume and M. Hülz (eds.): Hochschulen und ihr Beitrag für eine nachhaltige Regionalentwicklung (Forschungsberichte der ARL 11). Hannover: Akademie für Raumforschung und Landesplanung, pp. 208-232.
  • Blume, L., T. Brenner and G. Buenstorf: “Universities and sustainable regional development: introduction to the special issue”, Review of Regional Research, 37 (2017): 103–109.
  • Buenstorf, G.: “Forschung und Markteintritt in der (ost-)deutschen Laserindustrie”, in: U. Cantner and M. Ruffert (eds.): Universität in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Jena: IKS Garamond, 2012, pp. 203-210.
  • Buenstorf, G., U. Cantner, H. Hanusch, H.-W. Lorenz and F. Rahmeyer: “Editorial: the two sides of innovation”, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 22 (2012): 407–411.