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If you don't succeed, should you try again? The role of entrepreneurial experience in venture survival

Gottschalk, Sandra; Greene, Francis J.; Höwer, Daniel; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

There remains considerable scholarly debate about the role that prior entrepreneurial experience plays in new venture survival. Drawing on entrepreneurial learning theories, we use panel data on 8,400 new ventures to investigate the impact of four different types of prior entrepreneurial...

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Gründerinnen auf dem Vormarsch? Die Entwicklung der Beteiligung von Frauen am Gründungsgeschehen

Niefert, Michaela; Gottschalk, Sandra - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

Die Zahl der Frauen, die sich selbständig machen, sowie deren Anteil an allen Eintritten in die Selb-ständigkeit haben laut Mikrozensus seit Beginn der neunziger Jahre stark zugenommen. Die Zunahme beschränkt sich jedoch weitgehend auf selbständige Tätigkeiten, die ohne Beschäftigte und...

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Young innovative companies: The new high-growth firms?

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Delanote, Julie - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

Young Innovative Companies (YIC) gained increasing attention from governments and scholars due to their expected high innovative performance and growth. Consequently, this study investigates whether Young Innovative Companies, as defined by the EU, grow more than other firms, both in terms of...

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Innovation budgeting over the business cycle and innovation performance

Hud, Martin; Rammer, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2015

economic prospects, firms had to cut costs and reconsider their business strategies. With respect to innovation, cost cutting … often means to stop or underresource innovation projects which may harm a firm's long-term competitiveness. Firms may … therefore refrain from reducing innovation budgets during crises but rather deliberately allocate more resources to innovation …

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Employment growth in newly established firms: is there evidence for academic entrepreneur's human capital depreciation?

Müller, Kathrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

Human capital is known to be one of the most important predictors of a person's earnings. With regard to entrepreneurial success, founders' human capital is an important determinant of firm's employment growth as well. This paper investigates if the depreciation of a founder's academic knowledge...

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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...

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Fit and complementarity: cognitive distance and combined competence as predictors of co-operative R&D projects' outcomes in Europe

Zibell, Laurent; Allen, Peter M. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

This article considers cognitive distance and combined competence as predictors of concrete outcomes in co-operative Research and Development projects. The operationalisation is based upon a dedicated survey, answered by matched pairs of projects managers in partnering organisations, addressing...

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Non-technological and Technological Innovation: Strange Bedfellows?

Schmidt, Tobias; Rammer, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

Non-technological innovation is an important element of firms? innovation activities that both supplement and … complement technological innovation, i.e. the introduction of new products and new processes. We analyse the spread of … nontechnological innovation in firms, their relation to technological innovation, and their effects to firm performance and success …

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Drivers and Effects of Internationalising Innovation by SMEs

Rammer, Christian; Schmiele, Anja - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

, home market competition and innovationrelated location advantages for an SME's decision to engage in innovation activities …This paper investigates the drivers and effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based on a … large data set of German firms covering the period 2002-2007. We look at different stages of the innovation process (R …

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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...

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