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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. -- Corporate … entrepreneurship ; start-ups ; radical innovation …
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Mit der steigenden Nachfrage nach neuem Wissen kommt der öffentlichen Forschung eine wachsende Rolle als Produzentin von wirtschaftlich relevantem Wissen zu. Durch eine Stärkung des Wissens- und Technologietransfers soll dieses Potenzial besser für Wachstum und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit einer...
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Our research, based on the ZEW-Foundation Panel East, examines whether high-tech start-ups are mainly founded in scientific and infrastructural well suited regions or not. Estimation results on the level of postcode areas confirm the hypothesis that specific human capital, knowledge spillovers...
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internationalization process. We contribute to this research stream by establishing theoretical links with the emerging open innovation … with regard to the effect of open innovation strategies on internationalization performance. Our results show that both the … ones. -- New ventures ; internationalization ; innovation ; search strategies ; entrepreneurship …
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This paper focuses on the pre-establishment period of start-ups in industrial districts. The industrial architecture is what I call a "rationed agglomeration" in which some entrepreneurs gather around an established firm while other entrepreneurs in the same business stand alone. In a rationed...
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Young Innovative Companies (YIC) gained increasing attention from governments and scholars due to their expected high innovative performance and growth. Consequently, this study investigates whether Young Innovative Companies, as defined by the EU, grow more than other firms, both in terms of...
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This paper examines the role of venture capital on a firm's innovation activities by using a data set of German … technology-based firms founded between 1996 and 2005. Innovation is proxied by patent counts and an index of innovativeness which …
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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...
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between technically trained founders and employees who have business skills. This suggests that the innovation potential of …
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The effect of innovations on employment at the firm level is theoretically ambiguous. The present paper analyses this relationship using panel data on German start-up firms as well as German patent data. It employs different indicators of patenting activity. By applying fixed-effects and...
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