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Firm Level Implications of Early Stage Venture Capital Investment - An Empirical Investigation
Engel, Dirk; Keilbach, Max - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005
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 statistical matching procedures we draw an adequate control...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864995
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The Process of Creative Construction:Knowledge Spillovers,Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth
Agarwal, Rajshree; Audretsch, David; Sarkar, MB - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2008
underlyingmechanism of knowledge spillover strategic entrepreneurship whereby knowledgeinvestments by existing organizations, when coupled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864509
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High Growth Entrepreneurs, Public Policies and Economic Growth
Stam, Erik; Suddle, Kashifa; Hessels, Jolanda; Stel, … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
economic growth than entrepreneurial activity in general. We use data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor to test the … that ambitious entrepreneurship contributes more strongly to macro-economic growth than entrepreneurial activity in general …. We find a particularly strong effect of high-expectation entrepreneurship for transition countries. These results are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864588
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Is Venture Capital a regional business? - The role of syndication
Fritsch, Michael; Schilder, Dirk - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006
We investigate whether the supply of Venture Capital (VC) in Germany is driven by spatial influences. The study is based on information from more than 300 VC investments made in Germany between 2004 and 2005. We find evidence that the geographical distance between a VC company and the portfolio...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864733
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Why Butterflies Don't Leave.Locational behavior of entrepreneurial firms*
Stam, Erik - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006
Entrepreneurship is an important process in regional economic development.Especially the continued growth of a minority …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864876
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The Fragile Success of Team Start-ups
Stam, Erik; Schutjens, Veronique - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005
This article describes the benefits and pitfalls of starting a firm with an entrepreneurial team, drawing on a longitudinal empirical analysis of the life course of 90 team start-ups and 1196 solo start-ups in the Netherlands. In the first three years of their existence, team start-ups perform...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864998
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Agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship: testing for spatial externalities in the Dutch ICT industry
Oort, Frank G. van; Stam, Erik - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005
the concepts of agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship tend to be ambiguously defined and measured in the literature …. In this study, we aim to improve the conceptualisations and measures of agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865017
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Entrepreneurial Backgrounds, Human Capital and Start-up Success
Baptista, Rui; Karaöz, Murat; Mendonça, Joana - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
the cases of spin-offs and habitual entrepreneurs. The subject of unemployment-driven entrepreneurship is also explored …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864534
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Innovation Networks of High Tech SMES: Creation of Knowledge but no Creation of Value
Winters, Rob; Stam, Erik - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
This paper analyses the effects of innovation networks on product and pro-cess innovation and sales growth of high technology SMEs. Innovation net-works are positively related to both product and process innovation, i.e. know-ledge creation. One exception is the negative effect of innovation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864581
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Exports and Productivity in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality longitudinal data at the plant level, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and productivity in Germany, a leading actor on the world market for manufactured goods.It applies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864633