We relate innovation to sales growth for incumbent firms in four high-tech sectors. A firm, on average, experiences only modest growth and may grow for a number of reasons that may or may not be related to 'innovativeness'.  read more »

The Netherlands holds a strong position in fundamental sensor technology research, but this is not obviously translated into an internationally competitive sensor industry. In this paper we investigate whether sensor technology firms collaborate with external organizations, especially those related to public R&D.  read more »

Hardly any other field has received so much public R&D investments globally in such a short time as nanotechnology. Nanotechnology can be considered as an umbrella term for R&D at the nanometer scale (1-100 nm) where unique phenomena enable novel applications.  read more »

This survey paper aims at critically discussing the recent literature on firm formation and survival and the growth of new-born firms. The basic purpose is to single out the microeconomic entrepreneurial foundations of industrial dynamics (entry and exit) and to characterise the founder's ex-ante features in terms of likely ex-post business performance.  read more »