KfW/ZEW Start-Up Panel: Report 2012 Published

In November 2012, the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) and the KfW Bankengruppe jointly presented the current report on the KfW/ZEW Start-Up Panel. Under the title "Start with Strategy – Labour Turnover and Financing Behaviour of Young Companies" (Start mit Strategie – Beschäftigungfluktuation und Finanzierungsverhalten junger Unternehmen), the report especially examines strategic decisions regarding personnel management and financing decisions of start-ups. In addition, the report contains information on aggregated closure rates of young companies as well as on the determinants of start-ups’ individual likelihood to survive.

In 2012, the KfW/ZEW Start-Up Panel has already been conducted for the fifth year. With the KfW/ZEW Start-Up Panel, a unique data base for Germany is provided, which tracks firm foundations from the moment of their foundation for several years and at the same time offers a broad scope of company and foundation-specific information.  Each year, some 6,000 newly founded and young companies in Germany are surveyed. The total of the survey constitutes the Mannheim Enterprise Panel (Mannheimer Unternehmenspanel, MUP), which is based on firm foundation data gathered by Creditreform.

Contact

Dr. Helmut Fryges, Phone +49 621/1235-189, E-mail fryges@zew.de