successful than single entrepreneurs? These questions are analysed using data on academic spinoffs in Germany. Firm success is … heterogeneity in the academic origins of the founders do not play a significant role for the employment growth of academic spinoffs …. -- human capital ; entrepreneurship ; academic spinoffs ; employment growth …

entrepreneurship ; start-ups ; radical innovation … das Mutterunternehmen. Unsere Datenbasis umfasst etwa 2.500 junge Unternehmen des verarbeitenden Gewerbes in Deutschland …

for setting up the new business. These firms are denoted corporate spinoffs. Using data from German start-ups founded in … employment growth and postentry innovation activities of the new firm. We focus on start-ups for which a new idea (a new product … the period from 2005 to 2008, we apply nearest neighbour propensity score matching. We find that corporate spinoffs …

found to be of crucial importance for both ordinary academic start-ups and academic spin-offs, the founders of the latter …

So far, there has been no data set which observes firm formations in Germany not only on a cross-sectional basis using … Bankengruppe and Creditreform set up a panel study of newly founded firms in Germany: the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel. In each of the … ; panel data ; Germany …