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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
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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
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A Field Experiment in Motivating Employee Ideas
Gibbs, Michael - 2018
We study the effects of a field experiment designed to motivate employee ideas, at a large technology company. Employees were encouraged to submit ideas on process and product improvements via an online system. In the experiment, the company randomized 19 account teams into treatment and control...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012937627
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The Growth and Human Capital Structure of New Firms Over the Business Cycle
Brixy, Udo - 2016
employment in incumbent firms. This questions the effectiveness of policies that promote entrepreneurship to fight crises. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977873
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An International Cohort Comparison of Size Effects on Job Growth
Anyadike-Danes, Michael - 2015
The contribution of different-sized businesses to job creation continues to attract policymakers' attention, however, it has recently been recognized that conclusions about size were confounded with the effect of age. We probe the role of size, controlling for age, by comparing the cohorts of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030607
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Unemployment Benefit Duration and Startup Success
Camarero Garcia, Sebastian; Murmann, Martin - 2020
Despite the importance of business creation for the economy and a relevant share of new firms being started out of unemployment, most research has focused on analyzing the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) policies on re-employment outcomes that ignore self-employment. In this paper, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014095298
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Ability Matching and Survival of Start-Ups
Mueller, Bettina - 2010
New firms are regarded to be of substantial importance for the development of an economy, especially for innovation, growth, and the creation of jobs. However, new firms also face a high risk of failure. Thus, there seem to be high try-out costs connected with the establishment of firms. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013150785
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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
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University Research Alliances, Absorptive Capacity, and the Contribution of Startups to Employment Growth
Toole, Andrew A. - 2014
This paper examines how university research alliances and other cooperative links with universities contribute to startup employment growth. We argue that “scientific absorptive capacity” at the startup is critical for reaping the benefits from university research alliances, but not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043122
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Modelling Production Cost Scenarios for Biofuels and Fossil Fuels in Europe
Festel, Gunter - 2015
This paper presents the results of a calculation model for biofuel production costs in 2015 and 2020 based on raw material price projections and considering scale and learning effects. Distinguishing six types of biofuels, the paper finds that scale economies and learning effects are critical...
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