What determines the innovation capability of firm founders?

Arbeitspapier

Innovative start-ups, not start-ups in general, seem to be important drivers of economic growth. However, little is known about how such firms look like. As activities of start-ups are strongly related to firm founders, we investigate this question focusing on the innovation capability of firm founders. We find that the combination of different founder characteristics such as university education (at best a combination of technical and commercial education), prior experience in R&D, and strong motivation to realize own innovative ideas increases innovative activities of start-ups by more than 40%.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: KOF Working Papers ; No. 265

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; New Firms; Startups ; Entrepreneurship ; Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights: General
• Thema: start-ups ; innovation ; founder characteristics ; Unternehmensgründung ; Innovation ; Qualifikation ; Unternehmer ; Schweiz

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Arvanitis, Spyros ; Stucki, Tobias
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): ETH Zurich, KOF Swiss Economic Institute
• (wo): Zurich
• (wann): 2010

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/50445
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ