Third Party Funding

High-growth Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and the Transformation of our Economy

Leibniz Association Research Grant, funding period: 2024-2026.

Innovation by entrepreneurial firms is at the heart of productivity enhancing reallocation, and growing standards of living. These firms introduce new ideas, products, and services that displace those offered by less innovative ones. However, entrepreneurship and business dynamism are in decline in Germany with potentially broad implications for growth and well-being. The project team studies the conditions, determinants, and implications of innovative high-growth entrepreneurship in Germany. It brings together a leading group of national and international experts in a partnership between IWH and ZEW and develops a rich new data infrastructure to study high-growth entrepreneurship.

Institute: Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH)

Cooperating partners: ZEW – Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung Mannheim; Universität Mannheim; University of Chicago, USA; Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB)