skills that compose their human capital and how are these skills related to firm performance? This paper examines these … performance that correlate with differences in the scientists? research orientations developed during their academic careers. We … significantly improve their firms? performance of research tasks such as ?proof of concept? studies. Biomedical academic …

larger stream of social benefits than industry startups, a performance premium. This paper outlines the arguments why the … existence of a performance premium using a sample of German startup companies. We find that university spinoffs exhibit a … performance premium of 3.4 percentage points higher employment growth over industry startups. The analysis also shows that the …

scientists' sense of identification with these peers. A mediation analysis further indicates that gender-related differences in …

A positive view of the self is often portrayed as a valuable asset in the sense that it can have performance enhancing … self-evaluations and higher levels of educational performance. However, when we exploit exogenous variation in self … and we obtain a negative effect on performance. We discuss mechanisms that may generate such an adverse causal effect of …

effect of talent, enhance entrepreneurial performance? We distinguish between three different performance measures: survival … founders, we conclude that specific investments indeed affect the three performance measures substantially and significantly …

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences … show furthermore that entrepreneurs have higher returns to education than employees (in terms of the comparable performance …

capital, and organizational performance, as well as introduces interpretations from co-evolutionary dynamics and the role of …

find that earnings-tenure profiles for employee owners are not upward-sloping but horizontal. In addition we find that pay-performance …By using a large new panel of individual data, including objective measures of worker performance, we provide some of …-tenure profiles. Most importantly we provide the first direct test of the relative validity of human capital and agency explanations …