The paper analyses the impact of venture capital finance on growth and innovation activities of young German firms. Among other variables, our panel of firm data includes data on venture capital funding and…
This report provides an overview on recent developments in innovation policy in Germany in the period October 2001 to September 2002. It consists of a characterisation of main actors and policy instruments in…
In this paper we suggest an structural model that specifies firm growth as a function of firm specific parameters and of competition for purchase power with other firms on a given market. Moreover, we…
The neoclassical model of the production function, as applied by Robert Solow to build the neoclassical model of growth, linked labor and capital to output. More recently, Romer and others have expanded the…
This paper presents microeconometric evidence on financing contraints for research and development activities in German small and medium–sized firms (SME). Special attention is paid to the role of public R&D…