innovative and non-innovative start-ups. Based on theoretical models explaining the growth of firms, hypotheses on potential … legal form and formal links to other firms from Western industrialised countries have an impact on the development of start-ups … Eastern German counties have an impact on growth. Comparing annual growth rates of start-ups, innovative start-ups grow on …

The paper deals with an analysis of the growth of innovative and non-innovative start-ups in Eastern and Western … of firms extended by aspects especially relevant for innovative firms. The most striking result is that innovative start-ups … start-ups achieve higher growth rates in the first years of existence. These rates decline with increasing age and size …

innovative and non-innovative start-ups. Based on theoretical models explaining the growth of firms, hypotheses on potential … legal form and formal links to other firms from Western industrialised countries have an impact on the development of start-ups … Eastern German counties have an impact on growth. Comparing annual growth rates of start-ups, innovative start-ups grow on …

The paper deals with growth determinants of innovative and noninnovative start-ups in Eastern and Western Germany … external factors on the other side, influencing growth of start-ups in Eastern and Western Germany in different strength … the average growth rates, innovative firms achieve significantly higher rates than noninnovative start-ups in both regions. …

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

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 …