We investigate whether appointing a middle management level affects startups' innovation performance. Additional … consequential choices of startups. We argue that middle management is positively related to introducing product innovations because … sample of German high-tech startups, we find support for our conjectures. …

The scope of this paper is to investigate whether imitation strategies adopted by startups are effective in the pursuit … of enhanced entrepreneurial innovation. To this end, a literature review was carried out in order to develop a research … framework with factors related to imitation predicting entrepreneurial innovation. Moreover, managerial skills and …

focused on the evolutionary process behind firm growth and survival. Recently a growing interest is devoted to the variable …-specific characteristics that may play a relevant role in determining the growth and survival of a firm. Some works see university …

reforms that would likely increase the rate of innovation and the number of startups due to immigrants in the country. Key …

investigated whether innovative start-ups create more jobs than other newly founded enterprises. It can be shown that start-ups … with R&D based innovations have a strong effect on employment while innovative start-ups without R&D don’t perform better … than non-innovative firms. The impact of innovations is even stronger if they are developed in aca-demic start-ups. Start-ups …

This paper provides evidence that the effect of agglomeration externalities on survival is moderated by the start … unfold a positive influence on survival for less innovative companies, while their highly innovative counterparts do not … benefit or even suffer from spatial concentration. On the contrary, highly innovative high-tech start-ups benefit from a …

firms to achieve superior innovation performance. Nonetheless, to the best of our knowledge, scholars have never extensively … collaborating with the OSS community (OSS EVs) achieve innovation performance superior to that of their non-collaborating peers … collaboration with the OSS community for innovation purposes. Our econometric estimates use a sample of 230 firms and indicate that …