2026 Michael Fritsch: Business and Management Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Business and Management	72	270	253	9	9	392	24106
Economics and Finance	72	416	373	12	10	380	23970

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Germany Leader Award
2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Germany Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Germany Leader Award
2024 - Research.com Business and Management in Germany Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Business and Management in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Michael Fritsch is affiliated with Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields primarily within Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Social Sciences, and Business, Management and Accounting. Their work engages several subfields, including Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, and Neurology.

The main research topics explored by Michael Fritsch include:

Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
Innovation Policy and R&D
Regional Development and Policy
Italy: Economic History and Contemporary Issues
Firm Innovation and Growth
Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
Culture, Economy, and Development Studies

Fritsch's notable recent publications are:

Regions in a time of pandemic, 2020, Regional Studies
Effectiveness of Lumbar Cerebrospinal Fluid Drain Among Patients With Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, 2023, JAMA Neurology
Is innovation (increasingly) concentrated in large cities? An international comparison, 2021, Research Policy
Long-term decline of regions and the rise of populism: The case of Germany, 2022, Journal of Regional Science
Historical roots of entrepreneurship in different regional contexts-the case of Poland, 2021, Small Business Economics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Fritsch include:

Michael Wyrwich
Maria Greve
Martin Obschonka
Michael Stuetzer
Johannes Lemcke

The primary venues where Michael Fritsch regularly publishes are:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Regional Studies
Small Business Economics
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
The Journal of Technology Transfer

Michael Fritsch has also contributed to book publications, including a title published by Edward Elgar Publishing:

The Geography of Entrepreneurial Psychology, 2021

Best Publications

Marktversagen und Wirtschaftspolitik : Mikroökonomische Grundlagen staatlichen Handelns

Michael Fritsch;Thomas Wein;Hans-Jürgen Ewers

1458
Citations
Who cooperates on R&D?

Michael Fritsch;Rolf Lukas

964
Citations
Effects of New Business Formation on Regional Development over Time

Michael Fritsch;Pamela Mueller

931
Citations
Growth Regimes over Time and Space

David B. Audretsch;Michael Fritsch

908
Citations
Innovation, regional knowledge spillovers and R&D cooperation

Michael Fritsch;Grit Franke

750
Citations
The Geography of Firm Births in Germany

David B. Audretsch;Michael Fritsch

738
Citations
Creative Class and Regional Growth: Empirical Evidence from Seven European Countries

Ron A. Boschma;Michael Fritsch

728
Citations
The impact of network structure on knowledge transfer: an application of social network analysis in the context of regional innovation networks

Michael Fritsch;Martina Kauffeld-Monz

539
Citations
How does new business formation affect regional development? Introduction to the special issue

Michael Fritsch;Michael Fritsch;Michael Fritsch

508
Citations
Determinants of the Efficiency of Regional Innovation Systems

Michael Fritsch;Viktor Slavtchev

460
Citations
Universities and Innovation in Space

Michael Fritsch;Viktor Slavtchev

428
Citations
MEASURING THE QUALITY OF REGIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEMS: A KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION FUNCTION APPROACH

Michael Fritsch

420
Citations
The theory of economic development – An inquiry into profits, capital, credit, interest, and the business cycle

Michael Fritsch

404
Citations
The effect of industry, region, and time on new business survival - A multi-dimensional analysis

Michael Fritsch;Udo Brixy;Oliver Falck

404
Citations
Measuring the Knowledge Base of Regional Innovation Systems in Germany in terms of a Triple Helix Dynamics

Loet Leydesdorff;Michael Fritsch

393
Citations
The Long Persistence of Regional Levels of Entrepreneurship: Germany, 1925–2005

Michael Fritsch;Michael Wyrwich

389
Citations
Product Innovation, Process Innovation, and Size

Michael Fritsch;Monika Meschede

353
Citations
New Business Formation by Industry over Space and Time: A Multidimensional Analysis

Michael Fritsch;Oliver Falck

322
Citations
Co-operation in Regional Innovation Systems

Michael Fritsch

312
Citations
The effect of new business formation on regional development over time: the case of Germany

Michael Fritsch;Michael Fritsch;Michael Fritsch;Pamela Mueller

311
Citations
The effects of new business formation on regional development over time

Michael Fritsch;Pamela Mueller

290
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas Stephan Linnaeus University

Martin Obschonka Queensland University of Technology

David B. Audretsch Indiana University

Loet Leydesdorff University of Amsterdam

Samuel D. Gosling The University of Texas at Austin

Jeff Potter Brown University

David Bailey University of Birmingham

Ron Boschma Utrecht University

Ben Derudder KU Leuven

Peter J. Rentfrow University of Cambridge

External Links

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