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...

The Mannheim Enterprise Panel (Mannheimer Unternehmenspanel – MUP) of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) is the most comprehensive micro database of companies in Germany outside the official business register (which is not accessible to the public). The MUP is based on the firm...

Im Februar 2012 beauftragte das Ministerium für Ländlichen Raum und Verbraucherschutz des Landes Baden-Württemberg das ZEW mit der Erstellung einer Studie zu "Gründungsaktivitäten im Hightech-Bereich in Baden-Württemberg". In dieser Studie werden in drei Abschnitten eine differenzierte...