Does heterogeneity in the educational backgrounds of the founders matter for firm success? Are team foundations more successful than single entrepreneurs? These questions are analysed using data on academic spinoffs in Germany. Firm success is measured by employment growth. I find that team...

Sechs Prozent aller Unternehmen, die in Deutschland im Jahr 2014 gegründet wurden, können der Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft zugerechnet werden. Analog zum allgemeinen Trend gehen auch die Gründungen in diesen Wirtschaftsbereichen zurück. Es gibt aber deutliche Unterschiede in der...

Establishing a new firm is a complex process which comprises many tasks. A common assumption in the theoretical literature on entrepreneurship is therefore that interdisciplinarity is important for successfully running a new firm. Empirically it is still an open question whether...

This paper empirically studies the impact of the adoption of open source software (OSS) on firms' labor productivity and innovative behavior. Using a representative sample of German firms, the results show that the adoption of OSS operating systems for servers and general OSS applications has no...

One way through which knowledge and technology transfer can take place is through the foundation of new firms by former employees of incumbent private firms. In this paper, we examine whether knowledge transferred from the incumbent causally affect employment growth and postentry innovation...

Unternehmer, die ein früheres Unternehmen wegen Insolvenz oder aus anderen Gründen aufgeben mussten, haben eine höhere Wahrscheinlichkeit, auch mit einem neuen Unternehmen abermals Insolvenz anzumelden. Dies ist das Ergebnis einer Studie des ZEW (DP 14-009).