self-employment rates. With representative German data and unconditional quantile regression analysis we show that an …

in Germany praises the Silicon Valley model of entrepreneurship, contrasting the Mittelstand as low-growth, low-tech and … is the antithesis to the Silicon Valley entrepreneurship model. We show that Mittelstand is more than a small and medium … the Mittelstand is an excellent example of everyday entrepreneurship and a vibrant segment of economy which is also …

companies has however relied on data for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), taking measurable proxies (such as the total … entrepreneurship literature by challenging this false equation of Mittelstand and SMEs. We investigate different approaches to analyze …