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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
between technically trained founders and employees who have business skills. This suggests that the innovation potential of …We investigate the extent to which complementarities between technical and business skills of founders and employees … complementarities between technical and business skills within the group of founders, but that there are significant complementarities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559230
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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 … monitored by their corporate sponsors, resulting in less favorable conditions for radical innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302257
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The contribution of corporate ventures to radical innovation
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Dick, Johannes M. H.; Hussinger, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
Established firms often face significant obstacles to innovation. As a solution, it has been suggested to form … monitored by their corporate sponsors, resulting in less favorable conditions for radical innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008676483
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The productivity effects of worker replacement in young firms
Murmann, Martin - 2017
Existing management research has so far dealt with the consequences of labor turnover for established firms, but has not addressed its effect on young entrepreneurial businesses. In this paper I assess, both theoretically and empirically, the productivity effects of worker replacement in young...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011611159
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Ability matching and survival of start-ups
Müller, Bettina - 2009
In this paper, I analyse how the survival of new firms is affected by the average ability level in the founding team, the team size, team members' homogeneity with respect to ability, and team members' heterogeneity with respect to education. As a theoretical basis, I apply the O-ring theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298851
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Ability matching and survival of start-ups
Müller, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
In this paper, I analyse how the survival of new firms is affected by the average ability level in the founding team, the team size, team members' homogeneity with respect to ability, and team members' heterogeneity with respect to education. As a theoretical basis, I apply the O-ring theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005027062
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External capital access and new product launch in start-up firms with uncertain intellectual property rights
Heger, Diana; Hussinger, Katrin - 2013
Classical patent literature assumes that patents grant well-defined legal rights to exclude others from practicing an invention. In this scenario, start-up companies benefit from the exclusive right to commercialize patent-protected inventions and the certification effect of patents which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327224
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External capital access and new product launch in start-up firms with uncertain intellectual property rights
Heger, Diana; Hussinger, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
Classical patent literature assumes that patents grant well-defined legal rights to exclude others from practicing an invention. In this scenario, start-up companies benefit from the exclusive right to commercialize patent-protected inventions and the certification effect of patents which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957765
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Tax law and the transfer of start-up losses: A European overview and categorization
Bührle, Anna Theresa; Spengel, Christoph - 2019
Most of the European Member States employ anti-loss trafficking rules. They aim to prevent the acquisition of mere corporate shells with high tax loss carryforwards for the tax asset to be utilized in profitable companies. However, other corporations can unintentionally be affected by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012105657
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Matching of Individuals for Start-Ups: A Test of the O-Ring Theory
Müller, Bettina - 2008
In this paper I analyse how individuals match for for the purpose of setting up a new firm. As a theoretical basis I use the O-ring theory introduced by Kremer (1993) and applied to new firms by Fabel (2004). The O-ring theory predicts that individuals segregate between firms according to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298694