Unternehmensgründungen allgemein und innovative Unternehmensgründungen im Besonderen werden oft als Hoffnungsträger der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung angesehen. Damit innovative Neugründungen jedoch erfolgreich am Markt agieren können, müssen sie typische Probleme überwinden, die sich aus...

The decision to become an entrepreneur does not only have economic determinants. Using a unique data set of individuals who visited business start-up exhibitions and applying logit and probit techniques we show that entrepreneurial self-perception has a strong impact on entrepreneurial activity...

Based on the finding that entrepreneurs who found new firms tend to work as employees of small rather than large firms prior to start-up, we test how different working conditions, which enhance entrepreneurial learning, affect their decision to become entrepreneurs when moderated by firm size....