greater survival is achieved when startups engage successfully in both product innovation and process innovation, with a key … that the creation and survival of innovative start-ups should become one qualifying point of the economic policy agenda … startups survive longer than their non-innovative counterparts. In this framework, our own empirical analysis shows that …

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 … technological innovation to raise labor productivity. This paper identifies three reasons why technological innovation has become …

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 … nevertheless a period during which innovation went into relative decline. We document this decline and offer four broad …

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …

survival rates and little contribution to job creation, economic growth, and innovation. In this paper, we use a rich data set … performance up until 40 months after business formation.We find that formerly subsidized founders lag behind not only in survival … and job creation, but especially also in innovation activities. The gaps in these business outcomes are relatively …

that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …