Publications of the Research Unit Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics

  1. Refereed Journal // forthcoming

    The Private Value of Entrepreneurial Control: Evidence from a Discrete Choice Experiment

    We study how much entrepreneurs value control rights in the context of VC financing. While many entrepreneurs prefer to maintain control, transferring control rights is also central to VC contract design.…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 25-036 // 2025

    Disclosure Risk for Firms in Combined Firm-Datasets

    Past studies have successfully shown that the level of anonymisation of scientific use files (SUF) is sufficiently high to protect against disclosure attacks that use data from traditional firm databases.…