Investigation the Effects of Industry's Mean Employment and Mean Capital on Survival of New Firms in East Azarbaijan Province

In this paper the effects of industry's mean employment and mean capital have investigated on survival of manufacturing firms in east Azerbaijan province. The dataset of Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade has used for data gathering and a nonparametric Cox regression has used for data analyzing. The results of this study shows that there is a negative meaningful relationship between industry's mean capital and firms survival, but the industry's mean employment has no meaningful effect on survival rate of new firms.