Methodology and Operationalization of Empirical Analysis

Abstract

As this statement by the Nobel Prize winning scholar Krugman indicates, social phenomena may hardly be grasped by limiting their complexity to defined models allowing the application of standardized procedures of analysis. Being aware that the selected phenomenon of investigation applies to this challenge a suitable approach has to be identified within the possibilities of scientific analytical procedures to achieve cognizance. The following section, therefore, presents the concept of triangulation as multi-component analytical concept allowing for an approach toward the investigation of strategically pursuing entrepreneurship in regional innovation structures.