information on R&D, capital stock, state promotion etc for 534 Thuringian firms in their first three business years. The results …

competitiveness of the economy and may establish new jobs. The gains of entrepreneurship are only realized, however, if the business …Entrepreneurs, creators of new firms, are a rare species. Even in innovation-driven economies, only 1-2% of the work … force starts a business in any given year. Yet entrepreneurs, particularly innovative entrepreneurs, are vital to the …

In this paper, we describe the historical co-evolution of innovation and economic growth in Germany since 1871. The … country's rise as an industrial power in the late 19th century, through its innovation and entrepreneurial performance, is … nevertheless a period during which innovation went into relative decline. We document this decline and offer four broad …

and job creation, but especially also in innovation activities. The gaps in these business outcomes are relatively … improving long-term labor market outcomes for participants. From a business perspective, however, the assessment of these public … survival rates and little contribution to job creation, economic growth, and innovation. In this paper, we use a rich data set …

Technological innovation has historically contributed to inclusive economic growth in Germany. In more recent decades …, however, this contribution has weakened due to the declining impact of technological innovation on labor productivity growth … technological innovation to raise labor productivity. This paper identifies three reasons why technological innovation has become …

between technically trained founders and employees who have business skills. This suggests that the innovation potential of …We investigate the extent to which complementarities between technical and business skills of founders and employees … complementarities between technical and business skills within the group of founders, but that there are significant complementarities …

Entrepreneurship in Germany has been stagnating. As a result, the effectiveness of technological innovation to improve … overview of technological innovation and labor productivity growth from 1871. From this we show that over the past three … decades the economy has found it increasingly difficult to transform technological innovation into labor productivity growth …

Africa is still struggling. Traditional models of entrepreneurship and innovation were tailored for industrialized economies …. Frugal innovation is a new paradigm of affordable innovations to deal with resource scarcity in developing economies … Africa, Khan [9] cited the example of Craftskills, a Kenyan social business that manufactures renewable energy equipment in …

growth and convergence of an economy towards the world technology frontier. -- Growth ; skills ; innovation ; selection …

innovation-related initiatives, one of which was the National Cooperative Research Act (NCRA) of 1984. It has been argued that …