Do Company Builders Create Jobs? Examining the Rise of Incubation Finance in Germany

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Over the past decade, new types of business incubation have been developed. One particularly prominent example is company builders, which use their own resources to build up companies, establishing numerous companies in a series. In doing so, this investor type facilitates internal and external business ideas. It offers a new organizational solution that combines both the innovative capacity of founders and the financial re-sources of a large company with the desire for long-term employment and corporate affiliation. This article examines the economic impact of company builders in Germany compared with other venture capital (VC) investor types on the basis of employment trends in the portfolio companies from 2011 to 2015. It is shown that company builders promote more dynamic employment growth than do other types of investors. This finding suggests that this type of investor is particularly well positioned to take advantage of the institutional deficiency in the German VC market. The results are also discussed in the context of the growth of the Berlin-based VC and start-up ecosystem.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IAT Discussion Paper ; No. 17/01

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Investment Banking; Venture Capital; Brokerage; Ratings and Ratings Agencies ; New Firms; Startups ; Firm Organization and Market Structure ; Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
• Subject: venture capital ; company builder ; incubation ; employment ; Germany

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Scheuplein, Christoph ; Kahl, Julian
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institut Arbeit und Technik (IAT)
• (where): Gelsenkirchen
• (when): 2017

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/173347
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET