Our analysis of the survival of firms leads to the important result that the hypotheses about differences between various industries in the life duration of new firms and about the importance of the region of location for the probability of survival are confirmed. Many more enterprises are...

Techno-entrepreneurship is broadly defined as the entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial activities of both existing and nascent companies operating in technology-intensive environments. Boasting rich conceptual and empirical contributions by leading international specialists, this highly original...

Unternehmensgründung aus betriebswirtschaftlicher und rechtlicher Sicht -- Planung als Selbstschutz- und Frühwarnmaßnahme und Geschäftsmodell(re)design -- Grundzüge der Unternehmensbewertung -- Gesellschaften als Unternehmensträger -- Gesellschaftstypen und Rechtsformwahl --...

Fundraising for venture capital investments have continued to increase in recent years. One crucial step in the investment process is the valuation of the target company. Investors are faced with the great challenge of valuing a young venture without a corporate or financial history, a firm...

1. Introduction -- 2. The financing of research and development -- 3. The financing and governance of new technologies -- 4. The globalization of venture capital : the cases of Taiwan and Japan -- 5. Targeting venture capital : lessons from Israel's Yozma Program -- 6. Institutional support for...

Konzeptionelle Grundlagen der Innovationssystemforschung und -politik -- Prozessanalyse als spezifische Forschungsmethode -- Wandel- und Stabilitätsmechanismen der innovationsorientierten KMU-Förderung

Based on data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper documents that the patterns of variables influencing nascent and infant entrepreneurship are quite similar and broadly in line with our theoretical priors both types of entrepreneurship are fostered...

Nascent entrepreneurs are people who are (alone or with others) actively engaged in creating a new venture and who expect to be the owner or part owner of this start-up. Given that newly founded firms are important for the economic development of nations and regions, and that nascent...