Fryges, Helmut; Müller, Bettina; Niefert, Michaela - 2013
employment growth and postentry innovation activities of the new firm. We focus on start-ups for which a new idea (a new product … for setting up the new business. These firms are denoted corporate spinoffs. Using data from German start-ups founded in … outperform other start-ups founded by former employees of incumbent private firms that are not based on an essential idea in …