Young Innovative Companies (YIC) gained increasing attention from governments and scholars due to their
expected high innovative performance and growth. Consequently, this study investigates whether Young Innovative
Companies, as defined by the EU, grow more than other firms, both in terms of employment and in
terms of sales. Using a database of Flemish firms over the years 2001-2008 reveals that these firms do grow
significantly more than other firms. In addition, this study shows that YICs can be differentiated from New
Technology Based Firms and small young firms in terms of growth, pointing to the importance of combining
the individual properties characterizing YICs, that is being young (<6 years), small (<250 employees) and R&D
intensive (R&D intensity > 15%). In our estimations, we also take the underlying distribution of the growth
variables into account by performing quantile regressions. The results of these quantile regressions reveal that
YICs especially grow faster than the other, already fast-growing firms, indicating that they are high performers.
In addition, we never find that these companies perform significantly worse than the other firms.
Das Dokument wird vom Publikationsserver der Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim bereitgestellt.
![[img]](https://madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png)
Search Authors in