We investigate whether appointing a middle management level affects startups' innovation performance. Additional … consequential choices of startups. We argue that middle management is positively related to introducing product innovations because … sample of German high-tech startups, we find support for our conjectures. …

predictor of creative achievement. It plays a significant role in the business organization's innovation process and the … hypothesize that divergent thinking has a lasting effect on post-launch entrepreneurial outcomes related to innovation and growth … founders, which we observe up until 40 months after start-up. We find strong relative effects for innovation and growth …

greater survival is achieved when startups engage successfully in both product innovation and process innovation, with a key … that the creation and survival of innovative start-ups should become one qualifying point of the economic policy agenda. … startups survive longer than their non-innovative counterparts. In this framework, our own empirical analysis shows that …

costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance … terms of gains for innovation performance, but also show that collaboration has decreasing and even negative returns on … product innovation if its intensity increases above a certain threshold. In particular, costs start outweighing benefits if a …

costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance … collaborative R&D projects in total R&D projects is associated with a higher probability of product innovation and with a higher … market success of new products. While we can confirm previous findings in terms of gains for innovation performance, we also …

costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance … collaborative R&D projects in total R&D projects is associated with a higher probability of product innovation and with a higher … market success of new products. While we can confirm previous findings in terms of gains for innovation performance, we also …

startups from different European countries. We explore those relationships using Structural Equation Modeling. The results of … attention must be made to the business intelligence capacities in startups, given the impact it can have on firm performance …. Also, the network learning effect through BI is significative and presents a positive influence in performance. As startups …

This paper provides evidence that the effect of agglomeration externalities on survival is moderated by the start … unfold a positive influence on survival for less innovative companies, while their highly innovative counterparts do not … benefit or even suffer from spatial concentration. On the contrary, highly innovative high-tech start-ups benefit from a …

. We exploit firm-level panel data on product and process innovation activities in the United Kingdom and find that the … countries increased process innovation and reduced product innovation. This implies that the innovation response to labor supply …-skill intensity of firm production as well as firm size. In addition, the reduction in product innovation is lessened for firms whose …

In case of a product innovation firms start producing a new product. While doing so, such a firm should decide what to … technology, increases over time. The implication is that a later innovation enables the firm to produce a better innovative … product market, the better the quality of the innovative product needs to be for the product innovation to be optimal …