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How Do Young Innovative Companies Innovate?
Pellegrino, Gabriele - 2009
This paper discusses the determinants of product innovation in young innovative companies (YICs) by looking at in …-house R&D is linked to the propensity to introduce product innovation both in mature firms and YICs; however, innovation …
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The Post-Entry Performance of Cohorts of Export Starters in German Manufacturing Industries
Wagner, Joachim - 2010
This paper investigates four cohorts of firms from German manufacturing industries that started to export in the years between 1998 and 2002 and follows them over the five years after the start. Export starters are a rare species and they are small on average compared to incumbent exporters....
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Business Training and Female Enterprise Start-Up, Growth, and Dynamics : Experimental Evidence from Sri Lanka
de Mel, Suresh - 2012
We conduct a randomized experiment in Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the most commonly used business training course in developing countries, the Start-and-Improve Your Business (SIYB) program. In contrast to existing business training evaluations which are restricted to microfinance...
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Competition and Gender Prejudice : Are Discriminatory Employers Doomed to Fail?
Weber, Andrea - 2009
According to Becker's (1957) famous theory on discrimination, entrepreneurs with a strong prejudice against female workers forgo profits by submitting to their tastes. In a competitive market their firms lack efficiency and are therefore forced to leave. We present new empirical evidence for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154990
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The Value of Publicly Available, Textual and Non-Textual Information for Startup Performance Prediction
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2020
, new patent applications and participation in an innovation subsidy program. Our first key finding is that our models … accuracy are low. To forecast the two innovation-related performance outcomes well, we only need to include a set of variables … survival, employment growth, new patents and participation in innovation subsidy programs indicates ample scope for algorithmic …
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How Does Firm Survival Differ between Business Takeovers and New Venture Start-Ups?
Xi, Guoqian - 2017
Focusing on entrepreneurship entry modes, we investigate two research questions regarding firm survival: how does the survival probability differ between business takeovers and new venture start-ups? And how do the determinants of survival differ between the two entry modes? Using a large French...
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Mode of Entry into Hybrid Entrepreneurship : New Venture Start-Up Versus Business Takeover
Xi, Guoqian - 2017
Many entrepreneurs start their ventures while retaining jobs in wage employment; this phenomenon is called hybrid entrepreneurship. Little is known about the entry modes (new venture start-up vs. business takeover) of hybrid entrepreneurs. Our study aims to close this gap by investigating the...
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Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed : Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity
Caliendo, Marco - 2010
Turning unemployment into self-employment has become an increasingly important part of active labor market policies (ALMP) in many OECD countries. Germany is a good example where the spending on start-up subsidies for the unemployed accounted for nearly 17% of the total spending on ALMP in 2004....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147125
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Survival of Spinoffs and Other Startups : First Evidence for the Private Sector in Germany, 1976-2008
Fackler, Daniel - 2013
Using a 50 percent sample of all establishments in the German private sector, we report that spinoffs are larger and initially employ more skilled and more experienced workers than other startups. Controlling for these and other differences, we find that spinoffs are less likely to exit than...
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Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Post-Entry Performance of Newborn Firms in Developing Countries
Quatraro, Francesco - 2013
The aim of this paper is to provide an updated survey of the "state of the art" in entrepreneurial studies, with a particular focus on developing countries (DCs). In particular, the same concept of "entrepreneurship" will be critically discussed, then moving to the institutional, macroeconomic...
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