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INNOVATION AND VENTURE CAPITAL EXITS
SCHWIENBACHER, Armin - EconWPA - 2001
-improving product innovation. We explicitly introduce product market characteristics into the analysis with the aim to identify their … capitalist. The entrepreneur has incentives to distort the innovation strategy so as to make an IPO the preferred exit. We derive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413189
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Part-Time Entrepreneurship and Wealth Effects: New Evidence from the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics
Petrova, Kameliia - EconWPA - 2005
Why do people become part-time entrepreneurs? Are they credit constrained? Previous studies on entrepreneurship do not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413242
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The Green Entrepreneur: Visionary, Maverick or Opportunist?
Taylor, David W.; Walley, Liz E. E. - EconWPA - 2003
entrepreneurship (1998). The terms 'ethical maverick', 'ad hoc environpreneur', 'visionary champion' and 'innovative opportunist' are … ways to foster green entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561853
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Scale, scope and entrepreneurship
Bitros, George C. - EconWPA - 2004
geographically and function-ally. They promoted rapid innovation by resorting to systematic Research and Development ef- forts. And … innovation in the econ-omy. Hence, to the extent that policy makers strive to achieve the priorities of citizens, they are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413293
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Competitive Advantages of the Beira Interior (Portugal): A TOWS Approach
Ferreira, Joao; Leitao, Joao; Raposo, Mario - EconWPA - 2005
The formulation of a competitive strategy implies an extended understanding, in terms of the industrial structures, of the mains fields where the nations compete and those structures evolve. The environmental conditions of a region, and of its industries, determine both the generic strategies,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118851
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Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth: An Obvious Conjunction?
DEJARDIN, Marcus - EconWPA - 2001
This paper consists of an introductory survey of two fundamental questions regarding the link between entrepreneurship … and economic growth. The first one deals with the endogenous relationship between entrepreneurship and growth. In … particular, we suggest that, while more entrepreneurship could mean more economic growth, economic growth in turn could affect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118761
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The contribution of business services to aggregate productivity growth
Kox, Henk L.M. - EconWPA - 2004
. The business services industry has an important role in the national innovation system and in knowledge spillovers to … other industries. The innovation contribution of business services to the rest of the economy may countervail the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412877
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Ideas for Growth?
Maré, David. C. - EconWPA - 2004
There is much talk of the knowledge economy, and the central role of ideas and knowledge in generating economic growth. This paper provides a brief review of the economic literature on how skills/ knowledge/ ideas might contribute to higher output or higher rates of growth. Ideas are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118849
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Availability of Financing, Regulatory Business Costs and National Entrepreneurial Propensity
Ho, Yuen Ping; Wong, Poh Kam - EconWPA - 2005
in the 2002 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, we examine the effect of availability of financing and regulatory business … the propensity to be entrepreneurs. Regulatory business costs were found to deter opportunity driven entrepreneurship, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134472
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IPOs, Trade Sales and Liquidations: Modelling Venture Capital Exits Using Survival Analysis
Giot, Pierre; Schwienbacher, Armin - EconWPA - 2003
Using a detailed sample made up of more than 20,000 investment rounds, we analyze the time to ‘IPO’, ‘trade sale’ and ‘liquidation’ for about 6,000 venture backed firms. We model these exit times using competing risks models. Biotech and internet firms have the fastest IPO exits....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134683