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Private Equity and the Innovation Strategies of Entrepreneurial Firms: Empirical Evidence from the Small Business Innovation Research Program
Link, Albert N.; Ruhm, Christopher; Siegel, Donald S. - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2012
There is great interest in evaluating the impact of private equity investments on innovation and economic growth …. However, there is no direct empirical evidence on the effects of such transactions on the innovation strategies of … Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program research awards. We find that SBIR firms attracting private equity investments are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010840013
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Relating entrepreneurship to economic growth
Karlsson, Charlie; Friis, Christian; Paulsson, Thomas - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2004
The entrepreneur is an elusive character in economic theory due to the difficulty of providing an accurate description. It appears impossible to produce a single definition of entrepreneurship and most theoretical approaches yield operational difficulties. By the same token, most operational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644970
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Einfluss des Verhaltens von Inhaber-Unternehmern auf Innovationen und deren Erfolg in ihren Unternehmen. Eine empirische Studie nach der Grounded-Theory-Methodologie
Hauser, Tobias - Rainer Hampp Verlag
Innovation entsteht kein Produkt. Wie sich Unternehmer beim Hervorbringen von Innovationen verhalten, ist aber weitgehend … unbekannt – und damit auch, welches Verhalten sich positiv und welches sich negativ auf eine Innovation auswirkt. Ueber dieses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011206940
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Evidence from SMEs in Prishtina region, Kosovo
Govori, Arbiana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Innovation has become a central theme and challenge in the literature of entrepreneurship, SMEs management, and … strategic knowledge management and in the literature of organizational learning. Innovation needs a business environment that is … conducive to long-term investments in new business activities. This way, the development of innovation policy in SMEs forms an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111092
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Key Characteristics of the Small Innovative Firm
Andersson, Martin; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009
innovation activities captured by patent applications, firm characteristics, international trade and the regional milieu. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004988933
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Foundations of High Impact Entrepreneurship
Acs, Zoltan J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
issues will be cross classified with J23; those focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship will be cross classified with O31 … the questions this review covers the intersection of entrepreneurship with labor markets, innovation and capital markets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004970272
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Exploration and Exploitation - The Role of Entrepreneurship and R+D in the Process of Innovation
Keilbach, Max; Sanders, Mark - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
We formulate a model that explicitly separates two functions in the innovation process: The introduction of new goods … stable non trivial allocation of labor to production, innovation and entrepreneurship. We compute the steady state allocation … of labor to production, R+D and Entrepreneurship. We show that the innovation rate decreases if one of the innovative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032031
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Competencies and Institutions Fostering High-growth Firms
Henrekson, Magnus; Johansson, Dan - Ratioinstitutet - 2008
High-growth firms (HGFs) are critical for net job creation and economic growth. We analyze HGFs using the theory of competence blocs, linking firm growth to property rights and the interaction of complementary expertise. Specifically, we discuss how the institutional framework affects the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005642466
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Josh Lerner: Recipient of the 2010 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research
Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Parker, Simon - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010
venture capital, innovation and entrepreneurship has greatly extended and improved our understanding of one of the major … and organization of the venture capital industry. Later, his most important publications on entrepreneurship, innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008483922
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Regional Appropriation of University-Based Knowledge and Technology for Economic Development
Audretsch, David B.; Leyden, Dennis Patrick; Link, Albert N. - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2012
Innovation Research (SBIR) program. We provide supply-side evidence on university research relationships and how the use of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650262