Unter Schlagzeilen wie "Venture Capital - Treibstoff für Traumrenditen", "Die neue Gründerzeit" oder "Geld wie Heu" hat sich die Wirtschaftspresse mit dem Phänomen einer neuen Gründerwelle befasst, die nach den USA nun auch Europa erfasst hat. Venture Capital (VC) oder Wagniskapital spielt...

For small high-tech firms international orientation is regarded as crucial for growth and long-term survival. Even newly founded technology based firms (NTBFs) are often internationally active shortly after their inception (?born globals?). However, in order to create jobs and have a sustainable...

For firms acting in technological niches the expansion into foreign markets can be a way to increase sales and to thus to recover initial sunk costs over a shorter time frame. Our research, based on survey data for nearly 600 British and German high-tech start-ups, examines whether...