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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559230
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University Spin-Off's Transfer Speed: Analyzing the Time from Leaving University to Venture
Müller, Kathrin - 2008
For academic spin-offs 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/10010298044
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Founder's human capital, entry strategies and start-up size
Gottschalk, Sandra; Müller, Kathrin; Niefert, Michaela - 2009
distinguish between different types of entry strategies. On the one hand, we look at entry strategies based on innovation. We … measure innovation by a variable which indicates if a firm carries out continuous R&D. On the other hand, entry is classified … entry strategies. The four main groups of entry strategies are independency entrepreneurship, opportunity entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298801
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Employment growth in newly established firms: is there evidence for academic entrepreneur's human capital depreciation?
Müller, Kathrin - 2009
Human capital is known to be one of the most important predictors of a person's earnings. With regard to entrepreneurial success, founders' human capital is an important determinant of firm's employment growth as well. This paper investigates if the depreciation of a founder's academic knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299175
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Skill composition and regional entrepreneurship: a comparative study between Germany and Portugal
Mendonça, Joana; Grimpe, Christoph - 2009
member states, different institutional infrastructures for entrepreneurship. Based on a harmonized dataset, our results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299472
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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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Skill composition and regional entrepreneurship: a comparative study between Germany and Portugal
Mendonça, Joana; Grimpe, Christoph - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
member states, different institutional infrastructures for entrepreneurship. Based on a harmonized dataset, our results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533679
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Modelling production cost scenarios for biofuels and fossil fuels in Europe
Festel, Gunter; Würmseher, Martin; Rammer, Christian; … - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324139
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University research alliances, absorptive capacity, and the contribution of startups to employment growths
Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian - 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 necessarily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427003
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University spinoffs and the 'performance premium'
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian; Toole, Andrew A. - 2013
social costs of entrepreneurship are likely to be higher for academic entrepreneurs and empirically investigates the … performance premium varies across types of academic entrepreneurs and founders' academic disciplines. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311158