On the basis of a sample of 149 graduate firms from five German technology oriented business incubators, this article contributes to incubator/incubation literature by investigating the effects of the age of the business incubators and the firms' incubation time in securing longterm survival of...

Recent research has found pronounced differences in the level of entrepreneurship and new business formation across various regions and nations. This timely Handbook reveals that the development of new ventures as well as their effects on overall economic growth are strongly shaped by their...

Das Lehrbuch verfolgt einen innovativen Ansatz, indem es den Einfluss des wirtschaftlichen Umfelds auf die Entwicklung von Unternehmen in den Mittelpunkt stellt. Die Autoren zeigen mithilfe neuartiger, interdisziplinärer Methoden auf, wie in Regionen, die unternehmerisches Verhalten fördern,...