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markets. This study analyses whether a SRI screening process applied to equities results in a different performance outcome … performance effects of SRI screens. The 29 SRI stock indexes are analysed by single-factor models with benchmarks that closely …
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analyse the impact of the proportion of different occupational groups of apprentices on firm performance. We use … firm performance: the companies cover their training costs immediately. In contrast, companies with apprentices in the …
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innovative performance and growth. Consequently, this study investigates whether Young Innovative Companies, as defined by the EU … YICs can be differentiated from New Technology Based Firms and small young firms in terms of growth, pointing to the … R&D intensive (R&D intensity > 15%). In our estimations, we also take the underlying distribution of the growth …
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This paper examines the role of venture capital on a firm's innovation activities by using a data set of German technology-based firms founded between 1996 and 2005. Innovation is proxied by patent counts and an index of innovativeness which reflects the degree to which a young firm has...
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with higher expected growth and higher lagged stock market returns receive larger net cross-border venture capital inflows …. Thus, portfolio companies located in high-growth and high-return countries receive more venture capital from foreign …
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policy makers who want to foster the growth of the local venture capital industry and local companies. …
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This paper considers the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program as a policy fostering academic entrepreneurship. We highlight two main characteristics of the program that make it attractive as an entrepreneurship policy : early-stage financing and scientist involvement in...
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The goal of this paper is to point out the role played by private equity investors (venture-capital companies and corporate investors) in the emergence of a new biotechnology industry in Germany in the second half of the 90?s. This analysis takes into account the different business models and...
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We analyze the venture capitalist's decision on the timing of the IPO, the offer price and the fraction of shares he sells in the course of the IPO. A venture capitalist may decide to take a company public or to liquidate it after one or two financing periods. A longer venture capitalist's...
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