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The effect of broadband infrastructure on entrepreneurial activities: The case of Germany

Heger, Diana; Rinawi, Miriam; Veith, Tobias - 2011

This paper investigates whether the local infrastructure favours entrepreneurial activities. Besides the physical and knowledge infrastructure we take into account a county's broadband availability by building an index which accounts for county-related specificities. We find that broadband...

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Entrepreneurs from low-skilled immigrant groups in knowledge-intensive industries - company characteristics, survival and innovative performance

Mueller, Elisabeth - 2011

immigrants from the 'recruitment countries' of south and southeast Europe, who arrived in Germany mainly in the 1970s to fill … labor shortages. They are the largest immigrant group in Germany and can be reliably identified via ethnic name coding …

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Der Einfluß der Grenznähe auf die Standortwahl von Unternehmen: Eine theoretische Analyse und empirische Befunde für Ostdeutschland

Engel, Dirk - 1999

Die EU-Osterweiterung ermöglicht eine stärkere Arbeitsteilung zwischen den relativ kapitalreichen Staaten der EU und den relativ arbeitsreichen Zutrittsländern Mittel- und Osteuropas, von der insbesondere die ostdeutschen Kreise in Nähe der Grenze profitieren können. Diese Studie widmet...

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Does interdisciplinarity lead to higher employment growth of academic spinoffs?

Müller, Bettina - 2009

successful than single entrepreneurs? These questions are analysed using data on academic spinoffs in Germany. Firm success is …

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Skill composition and regional entrepreneurship: a comparative study between Germany and Portugal

Mendonça, Joana; Grimpe, Christoph - 2009

general as well as in technology- and knowledge-intensive subsectors. We compare Germany and Portugal which exhibit, though EU … member states, different institutional infrastructures for entrepreneurship. Based on a harmonized dataset, our results … results for Germany reveal exactly the opposite effect. These results suggest that both specialization and diversity theories …

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Aus der Not geboren? Besondere Merkmale und Determinanten von Gründungen aus der Arbeitslosigkeit

Niefert, Michaela; Tchouvakhina, Margarita - 2006

In dieser Studie werden Gründungen aus Arbeitslosigkeit der Jahre 2003 und 2004 inklusive der seit Anfang 2003 geförderten Ich-AGs auf repräsentativer empirischer Basis analysiert. Es zeigt sich, dass Gründungen aus Arbeitslosigkeit im Durchschnitt kleiner sind als andere Gründungen und...

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Afterlife: Who Takes Heart for Restart?

Metzger, Georg - 2006

The performance of young and newly founded firms depends largely to the human capital of the firm owner. The entrepreneur is therefore one of the main success factors for the firm. Yet entrepreneurs differ considerably in their background and characteristics. Particularly, founders? individual...

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Entrepreneurship Capital and Economic Performance

Audretsch, David B.; Keilbach, Max - 2002

capital. In this paper we introduce a new factor, entrepreneurship capital, and link it to output in the context of a … production function model. This paper explains what is meant by entrepre-neurship capital and why it should influence economic … output. A production function model including several different measures of entrepreneurship capital is then estimated for …

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Personal experience: a most vicious and limited circle!? On the role of entrepreneurial experience for firm survival

Metzger, Georg - 2007

The analysis in this paper gives attention to effects on firm survival which come from entrepreneurial experience. It is likely that different kinds of experience result in different firm developments and therefore in different types of firm exit. Particular emphasis is placed upon the effects...

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On the Role of Entrepreneurial Experience for Start-up Financing: An Empirical Investigation for Germany

Metzger, Georg - 2007

Entrepreneurs are often faced with problems regarding start-up financing. But compared to novice entrepreneurs, experienced entrepreneurs should have both more knowledge and better contacts, which should potentially reduce the occurrence of problems and affect finance composition. However,...

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