Erfolgreiche Gründungsunternehmen zwingen etablierte Unternehmen zu In-novationsanstrengungen und Effizienzsteigerungen, sei es durch neue Pro-dukte und Dienstleistungen oder Produktionsprozesse. Damit treiben sie den strukturellen Wandel voran und steigern die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit einer...

Nur etwa ein Drittel der Ausgründungen aus der Wissenschaft nutzen explizite Forschungsergebnisse. Der weit überwiegende Teil nutzt allgemeine Kenntnisse für die Gründung. Dies ist ein Phänomen, das bisher in der Literatur und in der Praxis kaum beachtet wurde. Der Artikel nähert sich dem...

For decades suggestion systems have been used include employees in innovation process. However, in order to gather superior ideas, integrating external stakeholders is critical to the innovation process. Wwwithin this paper the authors derive a sophisticated model of an integrated idea...

This paper analyses the impact that some managerial competitive strategies followed by a firm may have on its survival. We have not only considered the classic strategies related to the passive learning process defined by Jovanovic (e.g., R&D or advertisement expenses), but we have also taken...

After the kick off workshop we see the need to cluster the mentioned topic that interrelate with each other. We have clustered the single topics discussed in the workshop in the following topics:(...)

Purpose: The main objective of this paper is to analyze the relationship between employees' propensity to innovate and cultivate entrepreneurial aspirations whilst working within an organization. This paper aims to contribute to a better understanding of this interrelation, reflecting from a...

We investigate the extent to which complementarities between technical and business skills of founders and employees matter for the generation of market novelties by new ventures. Using data about German start-ups, we find that there are no complementarities between technical and business skills...

We examine whether startups attract employees with different pecuniary and non-pecuniary motives than small or large established firms. We then explore whether such differences in employee motives lead to differences in innovative performance across firm types. Using data on over 10,000 U.S. R&D...