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Longer is not necessarily better: Career paths of academic entrepreneurs and university spin-off growth in Germany
Hesse, Nora - 2013
Universities are increasingly seen as engines for regional innovation and economic growth. Some famous high-tech regions have developed on the basis of universities, for example Silicon Valley in California, Greater Boston in Massachusetts, or the Research Triangle in North Carolina. In these...
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The Growth and Human Capital Structure of New Firms over the Business Cycle
Murmann, Martin - 2017
Recent research based on aggregate data suggests that employment in young firms is more negatively impacted during economic crises than employment in incumbent firms. Using firm-level data, we show that under constant human capital of the firms' founders, employment growth in less than 1...
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Does high growth persist? A focus on growth formulas and the influence of firm exits
Erhardt, Eva - 2018
This study investigates the development of firms after high-growth. We argue that the formula used for measuring growth determines results. Implications from different formulas are tested with data from Amadeus on Bulgarian firms for the years 2001-2010. We provide first evidence for an absolute...
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Micro-level Evidence on the Survival of German Manufacturing Industries - A Multidimensional Analysis
Schindele, Yvonne; Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian - 2010
Several empirical studies showed that it is not the level of entrepreneurial activity itself, but the (long-term) survival and growth of new firms that determine the direct and indirect contribution of new businesses to regional employment. To this end, the aim of this paper is to analyze the...
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Composition of regional conditions for start-up activity- evidence based on Swiss Mobilite Spatiale regions
Kronthaler, Franz; Becker, Katharina; Wagner, Kerstin - 2010
results of the theoretical and empirical literature on entrepreneurship. Cluster Analysis serves to compare different regions …
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Start-ups, Long- and Short-Term Survivors and their Effect on Regional Employment Growth
Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian - 2010
We investigate the effects that regional start-up activity has on employment in new and in incumbent businesses. The analysis is performed for West German regions over the 1987-2002 period. It shows that the effects of new businesses on employment in the incumbents are significantly positive and...
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Survival dynamics in Portugal, a regional perspective
Sarmento, Elsa Morais; Nunes, Alcina - 2010
facts and determinants of new firm survival, a new entrepreneurship database was produced, using the administrative data of … comparability, in line with the "Entrepreneurship Indicators Programme" (OECD/Eurostat 2008 and 2009). We thus obtained a specific … application of a recent internationally comparable methodology for entrepreneurship to provide a multidimensional regional …
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Does Quality make a Difference? Employment Effects of High- and Low-Quality Start-ups
Fritsch, Michael; Schroeter, Alexandra - 2010
entrepreneurship policy, which can be derived from our findings. …
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Entrepreneurial activity across European cities
Belitski, Maksim; Korosteleva, Julia - 2010
The importance of entrepreneurship as a driving force in the economic development has been widely recognised …-regional differences. Given limited city-level data availability, scarce work has been undertaken so far on cross-city entrepreneurship … within the spatially oriented entrepreneurship research. Furthermore, to our best knowledge, no empirical studies exist on …
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The Long Persistence of Regional Entrepreneurship Culture: Germany 1925-2007
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2012
-specific determinants of entrepreneurship also remain relatively constant over time. Another explanation could be the existence of a … regional entrepreneurship culture. Such an entrepreneurial culture could maybe even outwear considerable ‚jumps‘ in the … regional entrepreneurship in three different scenarios with different degrees of changes of the economic conditions. The basic …
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