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Technological Innovation and Inclusive Growth in Germany
Naudé, Wim - 2017
Technological innovation has historically contributed to inclusive economic growth in Germany. In more recent decades, however, this contribution has weakened due to the declining impact of technological innovation on labor productivity growth. Fearing that this declining impact would undermine...
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The Rise and Fall of German Innovation
Naudé, Wim; Nagler, Paula - 2021
In this paper, we describe the historical co-evolution of innovation and economic growth in Germany since 1871. The country's rise as an industrial power in the late 19th century, through its innovation and entrepreneurial performance, is contrasted with the post-World War II period. This latter...
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A Procedural Perspective on Academic Spin-Off Creation : The Changing Relevance of Academic and Commercial Logics
Cantner, Uwe; Doerr, Philipp; Göthner, Maximilian; … - 2022
We analyze the influence of two contradicting settings on the success in the academic spin-off creation process. Scientists, who are embedded in the academic setting, have to reach out and adapt to the logics of the commercial setting to successfully found their firm. However, along this...
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The Rise of Female Entrepreneurs : New Evidence on Gender Differences in Liquidity Constraints
Sauer, Robert M. - 2015
Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since the start of the Great Recession. In this paper, we re-examine the impact of liquidity constraints on new business formation in an instrumental variables framework, using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023768
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Who Founds? An Analysis of University and Corporate Startup Entrepreneurs Based on Danish Register Data
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2019
We compare individuals presently employed either at an university or at a firm from a R&D intensive sector and analyze which of their personal-specific and employer-specific characteristics determine their choice of subsequently founding a startup. Our data set is unusually rich and combines the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870289
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Digital Entrepreneurship Research : A Concise Introduction
Naudé, Wim - 2020
In the past few decades, technological progress has led to the digitization and digitalization of economies into what one could now call digital economies. The COVID-19 pandemic will accelerate the development of the digital economy. In a digital economy, digital entrepreneurs pursue...
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The Continued Search for the Solow Residual : The Role of National Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
Acs, Zoltan J. - 2014
This paper introduces a new concept in addition to the traditional measures of stocks of capital, labor, human capital and knowledge, to understand the Solow Residual: National Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (NEE). The NEE construct is based on a methodology that combines institutions and human...
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To Be Born is Not Enough : The Key Role of Innovative Startups
Colombelli, Alessandra - 2016
This paper investigates the reasons why entry per se is not necessarily good and the evidence showing that innovative startups survive longer than their non-innovative counterparts. In this framework, our own empirical analysis shows that greater survival is achieved when startups engage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999005
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German Financial State Aid During COVID-19 Pandemic : Higher Impact Among Digitalized Self-Employed
Bertschek, Irene; Block, Jörn; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022
In response to strong revenue and income losses that a large share of the self-employed faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government introduced a 50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data comprising more than 20,000 observations, we analyze the impact...
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An Advisor Like Me? Advisor Gender and Post-Graduate Careers in Science
Gaule, Patrick - 2017
We investigate whether having an advisor of the same gender is correlated with the productivity of PhD science students … graduates and their advisors from U.S. chemistry departments. We find that students with an advisor of the same gender tend to …-representation of women in science and engineering faculty positions may perpetuate itself through the lower availability of same-gender …
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