employees, significantly affect company survival and growth in this context. Moreover, we recognize and analyze three stages in … characteristics that entrepreneurs and employees should bear, towards its survival and growth. Moreover, a practical application of … identifying and verifying the characteristics that affect their survival and growth. Results from an in-depth longitudinal …

Firm-level productivity differences are big and largely ascribed to ex-ante heterogeneity in the entrepreneurs' growth … potential at birth. Where do these ex-ante differences come from, and what can the policy do to encourage the entry of high-growth … entrepreneurs? I study empirically and by means of a quantitative growth model the spinout firms: the firms founded by former …