The economic expansion of the late 1990s created many opportunities for business creation in Silicon Valley, but the opportunity cost of starting a business was also high during this period because of the exceptionally tight labor market. A new measure of entrepreneurship derived from matching...

How Entrepreneurs Do What They Do presents 13 case studies of knowledge intensive entrepreneurship. The book focuses on doing, in essence, what happens when entrepreneurs are engaging practically in venture creation processes. Case studies can be used as a key element in learning and...

Fundraising for venture capital investments have continued to increase in recent years. One crucial step in the investment process is the valuation of the target company. Investors are faced with the great challenge of valuing a young venture without a corporate or financial history, a firm...

1. Introduction -- 2. Startups and technology transfer from universities and research centers - An analysis of the impact on launching new products -- 3. Internationalization of Brazilian high-tech startups -- 4. The background of the entrepreneur in high-tech incubated startups -- 5. The...

Pt. 1. The role of the individual versus that of the institution -- Pt. 2. The econo-geographic aspects of emergence, cooperation and survival -- Pt. 3. The cultural levels of nation, gender, profession, sector and region in emergence, cooperation and survival.

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...

Creative industries comprise enterprises focusing on the creation, production, and distribution of creative or cultural goods and services. Following an explorative empirical approach, we analyze start-ups in creative industries regarding three issues along the startup process: (1) personal...

The book examines from different perspectives a number of fundamental issues in the process of transforming technological innovations into profits. Key cases and field insights from distinguished contributors show the role and the practices of government bodies, universities, private investors...

Teil I Prägungen technologieorientierter Unternehmensgründungen -- Frühe Prägungen akademischer Gründer anhand sozialer Lernprozesse: Einfluss verschiedener Lebensbereiche auf die Gründungsentscheidung am Beispiel von BG Think Tank -- Prägung des unternehmerischen Verhaltens von...

Unternehmensgründung aus betriebswirtschaftlicher und rechtlicher Sicht -- Planung als Selbstschutz- und Frühwarnmaßnahme und Geschäftsmodell(re)design -- Grundzüge der Unternehmensbewertung -- Gesellschaften als Unternehmensträger -- Gesellschaftstypen und Rechtsformwahl --...