survival rates and little contribution to job creation, economic growth, and innovation. In this paper, we use a rich data set … and job creation, but especially also in innovation activities. The gaps in these business outcomes are relatively …

thanks to their ability in undertaking technological innovation, few empirical studies have explicitly addressed this issue …. This article examines the innovation-employment nexus for start-ups using the Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS), a unique … regressions indicate an overall positive but heterogeneous effect of innovation activities on the conditional employment growth …