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Biomedical Academic Entrepreneurship Through the SBIR Program
Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
This paper considers the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program as a policy fostering academic … entrepreneurship. We highlight two main characteristics of the program that make it attractive as an entrepreneurship policy : early … the incidence of biomedical entrepreneurship through SBIR and describe some of the characteristics of these individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059052
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The contribution of corporate ventures to radical innovation
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Dick, Johannes M. H.; Hussinger, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
Established firms often face significant obstacles to innovation. As a solution, it has been suggested to form … monitored by their corporate sponsors, resulting in less favorable conditions for radical innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008676483
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Entrepreneurs from low-skilled immigrant groups in knowledge-intensive industries - company characteristics, survival and innovative performance
Mueller, Elisabeth - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
immigrants from the 'recruitment countries' of south and southeast Europe, who arrived in Germany mainly in the 1970s to fill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009018227
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Vertical integration, separation and non-price discrimination: An empirical analysis of German electricity markets for residential customers
Nikogosian, Vigen; Veith, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
and regulation schemes on retail electricity prices. We find significantly higher prices in markets with vertically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646603
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Team heterogeneity in startups and its development over time
Kaiser, Ulrich; Müller, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
entrepreneurship research. To assess relative workforce heterogeneity, we construct a simulated benchmark to which we compare observed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010985639
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Corporate main bank decision
Höwer, Daniel - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
Do firms select their main bank relationship according to their risk or risk preferences? Relationship banking is attractive for high risk firms since it improves their access to finance and provides liquidity insurance. Low risk firms instead may not want to bear the additional costs. I employ...
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Does interdisciplinarity lead to higher employment growth of academic spinoffs?
Müller, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
Does heterogeneity in the educational backgrounds of the founders matter for firm success? Are team foundations more successful than single entrepreneurs? These questions are analysed using data on academic spinoffs in Germany. Firm success is measured by employment growth. I find that team...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008474661
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Matching of Individuals for Start-Ups: A Test of the O-Ring Theory
Müller, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
In this paper I analyse how individuals match for for the purpose of setting up a new firm. As a theoretical basis I use the O-ring theory introduced by Kremer (1993) and applied to new firms by Fabel (2004). The O-ring theory predicts that individuals segregate between firms according to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097521
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Human capital and successful academic spin-off
Müller, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
Academic spin-offs are one way in which employability of university graduates is reflected. Using the ZEW spinoff-survey, this paper studies empirically the impact of human capital on the success of academic spinoffs founding in knowledge and technology intensive sectors. The focus is thereby on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097737
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Ability matching and survival of start-ups
Müller, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
In this paper, I analyse how the survival of new firms is affected by the average ability level in the founding team, the team size, team members' homogeneity with respect to ability, and team members' heterogeneity with respect to education. As a theoretical basis, I apply the O-ring theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005027062