stochastic shocks imply that investment in radical innovation may very often be too time consuming and/or expensive to remain … attractive for private entrepreneurs. -- radical innovation ; innovation ; entrepreneurship ; investment ; R&D ; risk ; real …

The success of new start-up firms often depends on timing. It is valuable for the potential entrepreneur to wait for …

stochastic shocks imply that investment in radical innovation may very often be too time consuming and/or expensive to remain …

uses data on the population of 1,614 Danish firms founded in 1998. We track these firms until 2001 which enables us to …

In this paper, I analyse how the survival of new firms is affected by the average ability level in the founding team … whole population of Danish firms founded in 1998, I find that the average ability level in a team and the team size have … firms. The degree of homogeneity with respect to ability and the degree of heterogeneity with respect to educations have no …

Established firms often face significant obstacles to innovation. As a solution, it has been suggested to form …

Start-ups of new firms are important for economic growth. However, start-up rates differ significantly between … the empirical literature: (i) growth in the regional economy is driven by an expansion in the number of start-up firms …

known about how such firms look like. As activities of start-ups are strongly related to firm founders, we investigate this …