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. -- Corporate … entrepreneurship ; start-ups ; radical innovation …

This paper analyses the relationship between past innovation output, competition, and future innovation input in a … substitutability and entry barriers due to fixed costs. Based on firm-level panel data for Germany and Switzerland we obtain consistent … results for both countries. Innovation output in t-1 as measured by the sales share of innovative products is positively …

limited access to capital. -- Immigrants ; innovation ; entrepreneurship ; knowledge-intensive industries …

In Deutschland werden vielfach hohe Anforderungen an die berufliche Qualifikation von Existenzgründern gestellt. Im …

terms of post-entry innovation activities. However, we cannot show that corporate spinoffs benefit from the transferred idea … subsequent post-entry innovation activities of corporate spinoffs. … employment growth and postentry innovation activities of the new firm. We focus on start-ups for which a new idea (a new product …

For academic spin-off's I analyze the length of time between the founder's leaving of academia and the establishment of …

This paper examines empirically the relationship between innovation and market structure within a simultaneous … concentration. In contrast, competition enforces innovation, i.e. sales concentration has a negative impact on R&D. …

, but only for firms that engage in in-licensing and only for product innovation. The relationship between fragmentation and …

leadership. Apart from this strategic advantage we observe that foreign external sources of innovation are generally not superior …