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 …

Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across … and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have … restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation to consideration of the role of firm characteristics. We develop a …

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 …

entrepreneurial development. In our analysis, we examine a broad range of business outcomes including survival and income, as well as … job creation, expansion and innovation activities for up to 40 months after business formation. Using self … a unique dataset of German start-ups from unemployment and non-unemployment – that the later business performance is …

business outcomes up to 19 months after business creation. Outcomes include start-up survival and entrepreneurial income, as … well as growthoriented outcomes such as job creation and innovation. We find statistically significant and economically … important positive effects of high scores of self-efficacy on start-up survival and entrepreneurial income, which become even …

predictor of creative achievement. It plays a significant role in the business organization's innovation process and the … hypothesize that divergent thinking has a lasting effect on post-launch entrepreneurial outcomes related to innovation and growth … founders, which we observe up until 40 months after start-up. We find strong relative effects for innovation and growth …

innovation on firm survival and firm productivity, which constitute the two main channels through which innovation drives growth … perspectives that inform the empirical models allow for heterogeneity in the effects of R&D/innovation on firm survival and …-linearity and volatility in the gains from R&D/innovation, particularly in terms of its effects on firm survival and productivity …