This paper explores and explains the emergence and growth of new firms in the knowledge economy. The resource-based view, capabilities approach, and evolutionary economics are used as a foundation for a developmental approach. The development of the firm is conceptualized in terms of processes...

Folklore has it that the comparatively low proportion of self-employed in Germany is in part due to a habit that might be termed 'stigmatisation of failure': taking a second chance to build one's own firm after failing as a self-employed is said to be much more difficult here than in other...

Unternehmensgründungen haben eine grosse Bedeutung für die Wirtschaft eines Landes: Neue Unternehmen schaffen nicht nur Arbeitsplätze und erhöhen die wirtschaftliche Produktion, sondern beschleunigen auch den Strukturwandel ...

After the kick off workshop we see the need to cluster the mentioned topic that interrelate with each other. We have clustered the single topics discussed in the workshop in the following topics:(...)

A new study by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has shown that these companies are recording annual total returns to shareholders of over 100%, year after year.

Die im Auftrag des Deutsch-Japanischen Kooperationsrates für Hochtechnologie und Umwelttechnik (DJR) erstellte Studie untersucht die wesentlichen Faktoren für den Erfolg und Misserfolg technologieorientierter Unternehmensgründungen in Deutschland und Japan.

Marketing is considered to be of utmost importance for the success of new ventures. Therefore, research on entrepreneurial marketing has increased considerably since the late 1980s. Its findings are varied and vibrant, yet also large and extremely fragmented, and a comprehensive theory of...

Mit der zunehmenden Verbreitung von Venture Capital in Europa in den vergangenen zehn Jahren haben Business-Pläne im Rahmen der Finanzierung von jungen Unternehmen eine immer wichtigere Rolle eingenommen. Das gestiegene Interesse am Business-Planning in Start-ups dokumentiert sich in...