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 …

We investigate the workforce heterogeneity of startups with respect to education, age and wages. Our explorative study … holds both for non-knowledge-based and, to a lesser extent, knowledge-based startups. This seems surprising since a vast …). We also document that workforces become more heterogeneous over time - startups add workers with skills different from …

employment growth and postentry innovation activities of the new firm. We focus on start-ups for which a new idea (a new product … for setting up the new business. These firms are denoted corporate spinoffs. Using data from German start-ups founded in … outperform other start-ups founded by former employees of incumbent private firms that are not based on an essential idea in …

analyzing the number of start‐ups and firm closures on a yearly basis for Germany. Further, the MUP is the sampling frame for …) is the most comprehensive micro database of companies in Germany outside the official business register (which is not … in Germany. At the end of 2013, the MUP contained information on 7.7 Mio firms, of which about 3.2 Mio were still active …

effect on the survival probability. -- Entrepreneurship ; firm survival ; O-ring theory ; start-ups …

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 … heterogeneity in the academic origins of the founders do not play a significant role for the employment growth of academic spinoffs …

. Additionally the impact of having founded as a team is analyzed. Success is measured by employment growth. The findings suggest …