operating in knowledge intensive sectors and start-ups belonging to the remaining ones. This separation is done in order to … interpret the estimation results for start-ups in knowledge intensive sectors in a reliable way. The remaining firms serve as a …

The main focus of this paper is on the examination of the role and importance of innovation networks in the decision to … innovation intensity, the implications resulting from the involvement of ?start-ups? in a network of innovation are more closely … analyzed. The examinations show, on the one hand, that contact to innovation networks has a positive effect on the decision …

capital of the founder(s). This holds especially for technological disciplines whereas business knowledge plays a minor role …

This paper discusses the incentives for innovation when liability is limited or not. Clearly innovative activity …

impact of public technology policies on innovation of firms located in Eastern Germany. The main question is whether public … funding stimulates innovation activities or whether crowding-out effects between public and private means occur. A non … companies would have invested remarkably less if they had not participated in public innovation policy schemes. …