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 …

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