In this report, we study the development of Finnish startup firms based on both survey and register data. The sample includes all firms that were founded in the first half of the year 2005, and those firms have been monitored for eight years. We find that entrepreneurs in growth-oriented...

The present paper sheds light on how growth of young firms is affected by expansive strategies and the socioeconomic heritage of their main actors. Socioeconomic heritage has to do with socialization, prior socioeconomic circumstances, and regional growth conditions; the term is elaborated upon...

Recent studies of sectoral specialisation and technological development across market economies have shown how contrasting patterns of technical change can be explained by the different institutional frameworks that have become established in distinct types of economy (see, e.g., Casper, 2000;...

This paper investigates how firms adapt their innovation strategies to cope with constraints in national institutional environments. It is a comparative case study of Dutch and British dedicated biotechnology firms focusing on a particular type of strategy, the hybrid model. Patterns of skill...

Das Schaffen von Neuem, als eine Kernaufgabe des Unternehmertums, hat letztlich nurtemporären Charakter, wodurch die Notwendigkeit entsteht, den unternehmerischenSchöpfungsprozess kontinuierlich zu revitalisieren. Dies gilt nicht nur immakroökonomischen Kontext, in dem vor allem die...

Die in der zweiten Hälfte der neunziger Jahre des letzten Jahrhunderts angestoßene Welle derEinrichtung von Universitäts- und Fachhochschulprofessuren im deutschsprachigen Raum(erste Berufungen erfolgten im Jahr 1997 an Prof. Dr. Klandt, European Business School, undProf. Dr. Schulte, heute...