So far, there has been no data set which observes firm formations in Germany not only on a cross-sectional basis using … Bankengruppe and Creditreform set up a panel study of newly founded firms in Germany: the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel. In each of the …

Existing data sets on firm formations in Germany suffer from various shortcomings that prohibit sound analyses of new … are cooperating to form a start-up panel for Germany. In each wave of the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel computer-aided telephone … agency in Germany. Three stratification criteria are applied in order to construct the sample of the start-up panel: year of …

generalists and specialists to possess skill variety. Third, we test our model empirically using data from Germany and the … that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …