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There is a large body of literature on the relationship between innovations and employment at the firm level, with most … paper tries to fill in this gap by looking at three dimensions of the relationship between innovations and employment in … Poland: innovations and job creation, innovations and the skill structure of employment innovations, and wage formation. The …
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answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation … very important - but specific - function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity …, recent studies show that entrepreneurial firms produce important spillovers that affect regional employment growth rates of …
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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 …
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One proposal frequently raised to increase flexibility of the German labour market is the liberalization of the job protection law. It applies to those establishments with more than a cut-off number of employees. The argument examined in this paper is that this step in legal regulation hinders...
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Established firms often face significant obstacles to innovation. As a solution, it has been suggested to form corporate ventures. Based on a sample of corporate and independent ventures in German manufacturing, we show that corporate ventures are more innovative than the control group, i.e. the...
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This paper investigates whether entrepreneurs with technical education are more innovative in high-tech industries than economists. The main contribution to the literature is in using the type of education as main explanatory variable for innovation. To analyze this question, the KfW/ZEW...
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. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an … distribution affects the expected number of startups in the region. Using German regional data, we estimate a count-data model and … find that the expected number of startups is positively influenced by the fraction of individuals of working age - 20 …
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Die Kooperation zwischen etablierten Unternehmen und Start-ups bietet erweiterte Möglichkeiten, Innovationen … überdurchschnittlich innovativen Wirtschaftszweigen in Deutschland, sie steht aber durch die notwendige Elektrifizierung des Antriebs und … untersucht worden, ob und wie die Unternehmen der Automobilbranche mit Start-ups kooperieren. Im vorliegenden IW-Report werden …
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influences the direct and the overall employment contribution of new firms. In particular, start-ups in manufacturing industries … and in knowledge-intensive service industries make a larger direct contribution to employment than start-ups affiliated …-intensive service industries. However, the impact of start-ups in innovative manufacturing industries on overall regional employment …
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Adopting a dynamic perspective, this paper investigates age-related staffing patterns in German establishments and their effect on innovative performance. First, we investigate how establishments achieve the necessary workforce rejuvenation - from the inflow of younger or from outflows of older...
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