Eine aktuelle Studie des ZEW für den Verband BITKOM1 zeigt: IKT-Gründungen wenden im Jahr ihres Markteintritts deutlich weniger finanzielle Mittel für Investitionen oder den Geschäftsbetrieb auf als Gründungen anderer Branchengruppen. Dennoch haben IKT-Gründungen mit hohem Finanzbedarf...

Nur sehr wenige junge Unternehmen nutzen eine Finanzierung durch externe Investoren, eine so genannte Beteiligungsfinanzierung. Zum einen sind die meisten Unternehmen nicht attraktiv für Investoren, zum anderen scheuen Unternehmensgründer die Mitsprache durch Dritte. Einen leichteren Zugang zu...

We investigate the workforce heterogeneity of startups with respect to ed- ucation, age and wages. Our explorative study uses data on the population of 1,614 Danish rms founded in 1998. We track these rms until 2001 which enables us to analyze changes in workforce composition over time. Such a...

This paper empirically studies the impact of the adoption of open source software (OSS) on firms' labor productivity and innovative behavior. Using a representative sample of German firms, the results show that the adoption of OSS operating systems for servers and general OSS applications has no...

The Mannheim Enterprise Panel (Mannheimer Unternehmenspanel - MUP) of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) is the most comprehensive micro database of companies in Germany outside the official business register (which is not accessible to the public). The MUP is based on the firm data...

We investigate the workforce heterogeneity of startups with respect to education, age and wages. Our explorative study uses data on the population of 1,614 Danish firms founded in 1998. We track these firms until 2001 which enables us to analyze changes in workforce composition over time. Such a...

One way through which knowledge and technology transfer can take place is through the foundation of new firms by former employees of incumbent private firms. In this paper, we examine whether knowledge transferred from the incumbent causally affect employment growth and postentry innovation...

We investigate the workforce heterogeneity of startups with respect to education, age and wages. Our explorative study uses data on the population of 1,614 Danish firms founded in 1998. We track these firms until 2001 which enables us to analyze changes in workforce composition over time. Such a...

There remains considerable scholarly debate about the role that prior entrepreneurial experience plays in new venture survival. Drawing on entrepreneurial learning theories, we use panel data on 8,400 new ventures to investigate the impact of four different types of prior entrepreneurial...

One way through which knowledge and technology transfer can take place is through the foundation of new firms by former employees of incumbent private firms. In this paper, we examine whether knowledge transferred from the incumbent causally affect employment growth and post-entry innovation...