. Immigrant entrepreneurs are less than half as likely to found a company in a knowledge-intensive industry as native … entrepreneurs in knowledge-intensive industries can be explained by lower education levels, while smaller firm sizes suggest more …This paper analyzes how companies of immigrant entrepreneurs in knowledgeintensive industries differ from companies of …

successful than single entrepreneurs? These questions are analysed using data on academic spinoffs in Germany. Firm success is … measured by employment growth. I find that team foundations have higher employment growth than single entrepreneurs. Team …

knowledge acquired through formal education and professional experience and usually coincides with a higher personal wealth … entry strategies. The four main groups of entry strategies are independency entrepreneurship, opportunity entrepreneurship …, spin-out entrepreneurship and necessity entrepreneurship. The results indicate that firms conducting R&D continuously start …

investigates if the depreciation of a founder's academic knowledge affects a start-up's employment growth. The depreciation of … academic knowledge is investigated by quantifying the effect of the time period which elapses after the founder has left …