We investigate the workforce heterogeneity of startups with respect to education, age and wages. Our explorative study … holds both for non-knowledge-based and, to a lesser extent, knowledge-based startups. This seems surprising since a vast …). We also document that workforces become more heterogeneous over time - startups add workers with skills different from …

matter for the generation of market novelties by new ventures. Using data about German start-ups, we find that there are no … between technically trained founders and employees who have business skills. This suggests that the innovation potential of … start-ups by technically trained founders is best explored by hiring employees who are trained in business. However, a …

effect on the survival probability. -- Entrepreneurship ; firm survival ; O-ring theory ; start-ups …In this paper, I analyse how the survival of new firms is affected by the average ability level in the founding team … positive effects on firm survival. Having a team at all is the most crucial factor for the probability of survival of young …

survival. Drawing on entrepreneurial learning theories, we use panel data on 8,400 new ventures to investigate the impact of … a mix of success (portfolio/serial) and failure (prior bankruptcy/dissolution) on venture survival outcomes. We find … experiences, are more likely to experience bankruptcy. We find that portfolio and serial experience is unrelated to survival or …

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 …

analyzing the number of start‐ups and firm closures on a yearly basis for Germany. Further, the MUP is the sampling frame for …