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Team heterogeneity in startups and its development over time

Kaiser, Ulrich; Müller, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

We investigate the workforce heterogeneity of startups with respect to education, age and wages. Our explorative study … holds both for non-knowledge-based and, to a lesser extent, knowledge-based startups. This seems surprising since a vast …). We also document that workforces become more heterogeneous over time - startups add workers with skills different from …

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Business closure and financial loss: Who foots the bill? Evidence from German small business closures

Metzger, Georg - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

This paper explores how different reasons for business closure impact the probability that financial loss will be suffered by creditors. Using German small business data, the study finds that business closure due to financial problems is strongly correlated with a likelihood of financial loss....

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Personal Experience: A Most Vicious and Limited Circle!? On the Role of Entrepreneurial Experience for Firm Survival

Metzger, Georg - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

The analysis in this paper gives attention to effects on firm survival which come from entrepreneurial experience. It is likely that different kinds of experience result in different firm developments and therefore in different types of firm exit. Particular emphasis is placed upon the effects...

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Firm Closure, Financial Losses and the Consequences for an Entrepreneurial Restart

Metzger, Georg - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

Many entrepreneurs who close a business are actually willing to venture anew. However, to realize a restart is not only a matter of willingness on the part of the entrepreneur but also of its feasibility. Regarding the feasibility of a restart, the aspect of capital acquisition might be...

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Personal experience: a most vicious and limited circle!? On the role of entrepreneurial experience for firm survival

Metzger, Georg - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

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University research alliances, absorptive capacity, and the contribution of startups to employment growths

Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

This paper examines how university research alliances and other cooperative links with universities contribute to startup employment growth. We argue that 'scientific absorptive capacity' at the startup is critical for reaping the benefits from university research alliances, but not necessarily...

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University spinoffs and the 'performance premium'

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian; Toole, Andrew A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

typically treat these 'university' spinoffs like industry startups. However, when university spinoffs involve an employment … larger stream of social benefits than industry startups, a performance premium. This paper outlines the arguments why the … performance premium of 3.4 percentage points higher employment growth over industry startups. The analysis also shows that the …

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Afterlife: Who Takes Heart for Restart?

Metzger, Georg - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

The performance of young and newly founded firms depends largely to the human capital of the firm owner. The entrepreneur is therefore one of the main success factors for the firm. Yet entrepreneurs differ considerably in their background and characteristics. Particularly, founders? individual...

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Once bitten, twice shy? The performance of entrepreneurial restarts

Metzger, Georg - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

The aim of this paper is to analyze the effect of entrepreneurial experience on firm growth. According to the human capital theory, individuals who have higher ?human capital? are more successful than others. Entrepreneurial experience is a kind of human capital and, therefore, should affect...

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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 corporate ventures. Based on a sample of corporate and independent ventures in German manufacturing, we show that corporate ventures are more innovative than the control group, i.e. the...

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