Kleine und mittlere Unternehmen werden häufig als Jobmotor bezeichnet. AlsMittelstandshypothese soll damit die verallgemeinerte Ansicht umschriebensein, dass kleine und mittlere Unternehmen eine größere Beschäftigungsdynamikals Großunternehmen aufweisen. Die Frage, welchen Beitrag der...

[...]Das vorliegende Working Paper beschreibt zunächst die Zielsetzung der Richtlinieund ihre Entstehungsgeschichte. Anschließend wird auf die grundlegendenBestandteile der EU-Dienstleistungsrichtlinie eingegangen, den einheitlichenAnsprechpartner und die angestrebte verstärkte Einführung...

This study analyses institutional, job-related, and individual antecedents of entrepreneurial activi-ties from a longitudinal perspective. We take a holistic look at the start-up process incorporating entrepreneurial gestation activities (nascent entrepreneurship) and finally business creation...

Institutions of higher education are considered as an important source of innovation. Consequently, big efforts are made to facilitate technology transfer from academia into the market. However, technology transfer at German universities does not seem to live up to its full potential. We find...

In this paper we study how and to what extend (i) individual working conditions (e.g. peers, working atmosphere, work contract incentives, wage satisfaction), (ii) institutions (e.g. technology transfer offices, patent exploitation agencies, chair in entrepreneurship or awards for academic...

Established early stage investors decide to invest in new ventures after evaluating the propensity of success and the risk of failure. Consequently, it is of considerable importance that the new business owners have substantial 'skin in the game' and are thus highly committed to business...