This paper explores the relationship between firm-level innovation and external finance for
small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Our sample consists of 13,430 firms from Eastern …

Entrepreneurship is increasingly popular among policy makers worldwide to promote and
achieve economic development and growth. However, entrepreneurship rates differ from …

Purpose This study aims to investigate how educational attainment and entrepreneurial
competencies affect entrepreneurial motives of women (vs men) in the Middle East and …

There are two phenomena in the field of female entrepreneurship that have not yet been
adequately explained by previous research, namely (first) the “gender gap” in self …

Innovation is a crucial factor for economic development, growth and sustainability on the
national and international level, both in traditional industrial countries like Germany and in …

This dissertation addresses the puzzle of why men are approximately two times more likely
than women to be business owners in most industrialized nations after accounting for …

Institutions of higher education are considered to be an important source of innovation and
thereby a key driver of economic growth and development. Consequently, efforts are made …

Allerdings hat das Gründungsgeschehen in Deutschland seit einigen Jahren an Dynamik
verloren, wozu unter anderem ein florierender Arbeitsmarkt und eine alternde Gesellschaft …

This paper analyzes gender differences in the investment activity of German small and
medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The empirical analysis is carried out on a sample of firms …

In den letzten Jahren wurde vermehrt die Rolle von Ein-Personen-Unternehmen (EPU) als
Alternative zur abhängigen Beschäftigung thematisiert. Aus wirtschaftpolitischer Sicht …