Over the past decade, new types of business incubation have been developed. One particularly prominent example is company builders, which use their own resources to build up companies, establishing numerous companies in a series. In doing so, this investor type facilitates internal and external...

Aufgrund der geringen Eigenkapitalausstattung junger, innovativer und schnell wachsender Unternehmen und erheblicher Unsicherheiten hinsichtlich des Erfolgs der geplanten Investitionen scheidet eine Finanzierung mittels Fremdkapital oftmals aus oder erfolgt nicht in dem Umfang, den die...

This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncertainty and therefore rely on patents as signals when trying to assess the prospects of...

This study examines the consequences of loan denials for the investment performance of small and medium-sized German enterprises. As a consequence of a loan denial, innovative companies experience a smaller drop in the share of actual to planned investment than non-innovative companies. The...

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...

Torsten Fiegler beschäftigt sich mit der Venture Capital-Finanzierung junger technologieorientierter Unternehmen und legt den Schwerpunkt auf die Wirkung von „Netzwerken“. Er untersucht, welche Kontakte in einem Netzwerk eingesetzt werden und zu welchen Zeitpunkten im Verlauf einer...

Start-up subsidies play an important role in supporting start-up innovation and performance. However, what characteristics help and hinder start-ups to seek start-up subsidies remains unclear. We study whether and how founder personality, as captured by the big five personality traits and...

Ausgestaltung von Beteiligungsverträgen bei VC-Finanzierungen -- Systematische Literaturanalyse zu VC-Verträgen mit Darstellung des aktuellen Forschungsstands -- Überprüfung und Validierung des VC-Vertragsmodells mithilfe von Experteninterviews -- Empirisch-quantitative Untersuchung des...