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one third. We scrutinize this gender gap using individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large … models and employing decomposition techniques, we find that gender differences in socio-demographics alone would even be in … start-ups among women and explains about one third of the entire gender difference. Most substantially, men opt for a start …
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one third. We scrutinize this gender gap using individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large … models and employing decomposition techniques, we find that gender differences in socio-demographics alone would even be in … start-ups among women and explains about one third of the entire gender difference. Most substantially, men opt for a start …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941456
The present paper investigates the effectiveness of R&D subsidies given to start-ups. Taking an aggregate view rather than evaluating a single program, we estimate the impact of R&D subsidies on start-ups’ employment growth and their patent output. A unique data set on start-ups in the East...
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This paper estimates the effect of heterogeneous university funding stemming from the German Excellence Initiative on a regional firm’s probability to innovate by using a multi-valued two-way fixed effects difference-in-differences model. The estimations show that funding an additional...
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We evaluate the impact of cooperation with public research institutions on firms' inno-vative activities in France and Germany, using data from the fourth Community Innova-tion Survey (CIS4). We propose an original econometric methodology, which explicitly takes into account potential estimation...
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This paper deals with the effects of publicly funded research on regional technological progress and economic growth. We adopt a system approach and investigate the effects on all regional input factors and output by means of a flexible spatial panel VAR (SpPVAR) model. This allows us to deal...
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TGZ in Deutschland. Hierzu werden die Entwicklungspfade von 371 ehemals durch TGZ geförderten Unternehmen und von 371 …
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There is a research gap with respect to understanding the role of entrepreneurial culture and tradition for actual start-up behaviour. We combine historical self-employment data (entrepreneurial tradition) with a psychological measure for entrepreneurial attitudes (entrepreneurial culture). The...
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University research parks constitute a potentially important mechanism for university technology transfer and regional economic development. Unfortunately, there is little theoretical and empirical evidence on the firm-level choice decision to locate on such a facility. We fill this gap by...
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This paper provides evidence that the effect of agglomeration externalities on survival is moderated by the start-up's innovative behavior. It is shown that localization externalities are prevalent particularly in non-high-tech environments and unfold a positive influence on survival for less...
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