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Firm Level Implications of Early Stage Venture Capital Investment: An Empirical Investigation

Keilbach, Max; Engel, Dirk - 2002

The paper analyses the impact of venture capital finance on growth and innovation activities of young German firms. Among other variables, our panel of firm data includes data on venture capital funding and patent applications. With a statistical matching procedure we draw an adequate control...

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Wachstumsdeterminanten junger Unternehmen in den alten und neuen Bundesländern: Ein Vergleich zwischen innovativen und nicht-innovativen Unternehmen

Almus, Matthias; Engel, Dirk; Nerlinger, Eric A. - 1999

The paper deals with growth determinants of innovative and noninnovative start-ups in Eastern and Western Germany … external factors on the other side, influencing growth of start-ups in Eastern and Western Germany in different strength …. Higher growth rates can be observed in firms from Western Germany compared with their Eastern German counterparts. Comparing …

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Zur Rolle von Beteiligungskapitalgebern in ihren Portfoliounternehmen: Eine ökonometrische Analyse

Engel, Dirk - 2002

-finanzierten Unternehmen und deren VCG. Die Identifizierung der VC-finanzierten Unternehmen basiert auf einer Suche nach offenen Beteiligungen … von VCG an anderen Unternehmen in den ZEW-Gründungspanels. Ein aus wirtschaftspolitischer Sicht interessantes Ergebnis ist …, dass Venture Capital (VC)-finanzierte Unternehmen im Durchschnitt ein höheres Wachstum aufweisen als andere Unternehmen mit …

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The Impact of Venture Capital on Firm Growth: An Empirical Investigation

Engel, Dirk - 2002

The financial and non-financial involvement of venture capitalists is supposed to be positively correlated with firm performance. This paper deals with the evaluation of the impact of venture capitalists on employment growth of new founded firms. Differences between high-tech and low-tech...

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Reforming Social Welfare as We Know It? A Microsimulation Study for Germany

Jacobebbinghaus, Peter; Steiner, Viktor - 2003

-specified time limits, are viewed as one important reason for the persistently high level of unemployment in Germany by many … typically assumed by contributors to recent discussions on the potential labour market effects of welfare reforms in Germany …

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The Birth of German Biotechnology Industry: Did Venture Capital run the Show?

Heneric, Oliver; Engel, Dirk; Champenois, Claire - 2004

corporate investors) in the emergence of a new biotechnology industry in Germany in the second half of the 90?s. This analysis …

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Stimuliert der BioRegio-Wettbewerb die Bildung von Biotechnologieclustern in Deutschland?

Engel, Dirk; Heneric, Oliver - 2005

Regions with biotechnology-specific knowledge seem to have best chances to attract potential entrepreneurs to establish a biotechnology-firm. Furthermore, regional oriented technology policy is supposed to stimulate the creation process of biotechnology clusters, too. The BioRegio contest (BRC)...

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Do University Based Regions Really Attract Outside Entrepreneurs: The Case of the German Biotechnology Industry

Engel, Dirk; Heneric, Oliver - 2005

The paper tests empirically the role of knowledge stocks to explain the regional distribution of Germany …

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Do Spillovers Stimulate Incremental or Drastic Product Innovations? Hypotheses and Evidence from German Establishment Data

Jirjahn, Uwe; Kraft, Kornelius - 2006

We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive impact on incremental innovations. This impact is largely independent of the participation in R&D cooperations. Spillovers exert no such independent influence on drastic...

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Extended benefit entitlement periods and the duration of unemployment in West Germany

Steiner, Viktor - 1997

Germany1, as most other European countries, has been plagued by a persistently high level of long?term unemployment … level of long?term unemployment in Germany relative to the United States? …

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