Dieser Bericht gibt einen Überblick über die Charakteristika innovativer junger Unternehmen in Deutschland. Datengrundlage ist das IAB/ZEW Gründungspanel, eine seit 2008 jährlich stattfindende Befragung von jungen Unternehmen. Verglichen werden die Unternehmen verschiedener Branchengruppen,...

This paper addresses three simple questions: how should the contribution of high-growth firms to job creation be measured? how much does this contribution vary across countries? to what extent does the cross-country variation depend on variation in the proportion of high-growth firms in the...

The basic principle governing the development of the accounting framework is the choice of appropriate comparators. Firstly, when measuring contributions to job creation, we should focus on just job creating firms, otherwise we are summing over contributions from firms with positive, zero, and...