The paper provides an insight into the efforts of Germany to create a culture of entrepreneurship at higher-education institutions and to promote university-based start-ups. The focus is on one particular network initiative - GET UP - which is part of the federal program EXIST University-based...

In 2002 a survey conducted by the University of Applied Sciences Jena pointed out that many young technology-based firms in the Free State of Thuringia in Germany strive for international contacts. 50% of the enterprises that have been surveyed operated internationally, 40 % intends to establish...

Factors that influence the creation and developmentof innovative start-ups, particularly university-based start-ups, are examined.Previous research has found that reasons for creating academic spin-off firmsinclude perception of market opportunity, independence, presence of anentrepreneurial...