Among available policy levers to boost innovation, investment in applied research organisations has received little … system and merge it with the German contribution to the Community Innovation Survey (CIS), which contains panel information …

concerning NTBFs in Germany. The issues covered include the incidence of start-ups firms in Germany's technology …

German high-tech start-ups, examines whether internationalisation leads to faster growth among high-tech start-ups. Results … competition and shorter windows of opportunity increase the pressure to grow rapidly to appropriate the returns from innovation … organisatorische Ressourcen erfordern, stellt sich die Frage, wie die kleinsten Unternehmen im High-tech Sektor, die "High-tech Start-ups …

and German start-ups operating in high-technology industries, we analyse the differences between those companies that have …

of the hypotheses raised in this literature. It employs the data of the first wave of the Mannheim Innovation Panel …&D we also used the concept of total innovation expenditures to capture the importance of non R& D innovation activities … which are especially important for small firms. (3) We give reliable estimates on the occurrence of R&D and innovation …