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The workforce composition of young firms and product innovation: Complementarities in the skills of founders and their early employees
Müller, Bettina; Murmann, Martin - 2016
matter for the generation of market novelties by new ventures. Using data about German start-ups, we find that there are no … start-ups by technically trained founders is best explored by hiring employees who are trained in business. However, a …
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The contribution of corporate ventures to radical innovation
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Dick, Johannes M. H.; Hussinger, Katrin - 2010
Established firms often face significant obstacles to innovation. As a solution, it has been suggested to form corporate ventures. Based on a sample of corporate and independent ventures in German manufacturing, we show that corporate ventures are more innovative than the control group, i.e. the...
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Separating wheat and chaff: age-specific staffing strategies and innovative performance at the firm level
Frosch, Katharina; Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2011
Adopting a dynamic perspective, this paper investigates age-related staffing patterns in German establishments and their effect on innovative performance. First, we investigate how establishments achieve the necessary workforce rejuvenation - from the inflow of younger or from outflows of older...
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Human capital and innovation in East and West German manufacturing firms
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 1997
, 1994 and 1995. In the German industrial sector, especially in East Germany, employment has declined and the share of highly …The paper analyses the theoretical and empirical relationship between employment, skill structure and innovation in … current stage of transition subsidising labour might be more effective for creating jobs in East Germany than promoting R …
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Employment Effects of Different Innovation Activities: Microeconometric Evidence
Peters, Bettina - 2004
innovation and employment growth in Germany. The model is tailor-made for analysing firm-level employment effects of innovations … using specific information provided by CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation … output. The econometric analysis confirms that product innovations have a positive impact on employment. In contrast to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297395
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Employment Effects of Different Innovation Activities: Microeconometric Evidence
Peters, Bettina - 2005
service firms in Germany. The model is tailor-made for analysing firm-level employment effects of innovations using specific … activities, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in manufacturing and … information provided by CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation output. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298012
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Does Innovation Stimulate Employment? A Firm-Level Analysis Using Comparable Micro-Data From Four European Countries
Harrison, Rupert; Jaumandreu Balanzo, Jordi; Mairesse, … - 2008
This paper studies the impact of process and product innovations introduced by firms on employment growth in these … firms. A simple model that relates employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to … innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated using comparable firm-level data from France, Germany, Spain and the …
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Firm Level Implications of Early Stage Venture Capital Investment: An Empirical Investigation
Keilbach, Max; Engel, Dirk - 2002
The paper analyses the impact of venture capital finance on growth and innovation activities of young German firms. Among other variables, our panel of firm data includes data on venture capital funding and patent applications. With a statistical matching procedure we draw an adequate control...
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Beschäftigungsdynamik in jungen innovativen Unternehmen: Empirische Ergebnisse für West-Deutschland
Almus, Matthias; Nerlinger, Eric A. - 1998
Die Ergebnisse der multivariaten Analysen zur Beschäftigungsdynamik und dem Wachstumspotential junger innovativer Unternehmen lassen erkennen, daß junge innovative Unternehmen signifikant höhere Wachstumsraten erzielen als junge Unternehmen mit traditionellen Produkten. Die Abschätzung der...
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Wachstumsdeterminanten junger Unternehmen in den alten und neuen Bundesländern: Ein Vergleich zwischen innovativen und nicht-innovativen Unternehmen
Almus, Matthias; Engel, Dirk; Nerlinger, Eric A. - 1999
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 …. Higher growth rates can be observed in firms from Western Germany compared with their Eastern German counterparts. Comparing …
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