Borderstep Institute (Edt.) (2012). Booklet. Start-ups: Produkt Pioneers for a Green Economy.

While some three quarters of all improvements were introduced to the market by established companies on their own (64 %), or simultaneously with start-up companies (10 %), some two thirds of all radical innovations are credited to start-up companies. For Germany’s energy-policy turnaround and the goals of a «green economy», that means that start-ups in «green» lead markets are in the future to be stimulated and supported in a targeted manner.