Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 175
Cover Image
Wages in High-Tech Start-Ups – Do Academic Spin-Offs Pay a Wage Premium?
Dorner, Matthias - 2015
Due to their origin from universities, academic spin‐offs operate at the forefront of the technological development. Therefore, spin‐offs exhibit a skill‐biased labour demand, i.e. spin‐offs have a high demand for employees with cutting edge knowledge and technical skills. In order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020682
Cover Image
Wages in High-Tech Start-Ups – Do Academic Spin-Offs Pay a Wage Premium?
Dorner, Matthias - 2015
Due to their origin from universities, academic spin‐offs operate at the forefront of the technological development. Therefore, spin‐offs exhibit a skill‐biased labour demand, i.e. spin‐offs have a high demand for employees with cutting edge knowledge and technical skills. In order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021253
Cover Image
The Effect of Broadband Infrastructure on Entrepreneurial Activities : The Case of Germany
Heger, Diana - 2014
This paper investigates whether the local infrastructure favours entrepreneurial activities. Besides the physical and knowledge infrastructure we take into account a county's broadband availability by building an index which accounts for county-related specificities. We find that broadband...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066760
Cover Image
On Tax Evasion, Entrepreneurial Generosity and Fungible Assets
Bittschi, Benjamin - 2016
remaining income sources. 2) An entrepreneurship researcher would conclude that business owners are more generous than employees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994848
Cover Image
Green Start-Ups and the Role of Founder Personality
Chapman, Gary; Hottenrott, Hanna - 2022
Green start-ups play a vital role in the needed transition towards more environmentally sustainable economies. Yet our understanding of why some founders start green ventures and others do not remains incomplete. We build on the cognitive and decision-making perspectives on start-ups...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013291872
Cover Image
Skill Composition and Regional Entrepreneurship : A Comparative Study between Germany and Portugal
Grimpe, Christoph; Mendonça, Joana - 2009
infrastructures for entrepreneurship which presumably moderate the relationship between the skill composition and regional … to entrepreneurship. As these should predominantly vary at the national level, we present a comparative study of this … other in terms of economic capacity and geography. Hence, the institutional infrastructures for entrepreneurship may vary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014201171
Cover Image
Employment Growth in Newly Established Firms - Is There Evidence for Academic Entrepreneur's Human Capital Depreciation?
Mueller, Kathrin - 2013
This paper contributes to the literature of academic entrepreneurship by investigating the effect of a possible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014202261
Cover Image
University Spin-Off's Transfer Speed - Analyzing the Time from Leaving University to Venture
Mueller, Kathrin - 2009
For academic spin-off's I analyze the length of time between the founder's leaving of academia and the establishment of his firm. Technology transfer can take place even years after leaving the mother institution. A duration analysis reveals that a longer time-lag is caused by the necessity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014216010
Cover Image
Factors influencing technological entrepreneurship in Chinese firms : evidence from Guangdong
Petti, Claudio; Zhang, Shujun - In: International journal of technology management : IJTM 65 (2014) 1/4, pp. 70-95
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010459669
Cover Image
Assessing government-supported technology-based business incubators : evidence from China
Tang, Ming Feng; Lee, Jaegul; Liu, Kun; Lu, Yong - In: International journal of technology management : IJTM 65 (2014) 1/4, pp. 24-48
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010459680