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Work experience from paid employment and the path to entrepreneurship : business takeover versus new venture start-up
Xi, Guoqian; Block, Jörn; Lasch, Frank C.; Robert, Frank; … - 2016
entrepreneurship. We distinguish between two distinct entrepreneurship entry modes: business takeover and new venture start-up. Using a … large and rich French data set, we find that small firm experience increases the likelihood for business takeover, whereas … management and same sector experience both increase the likelihood for new ventures. Our findings are relevant for policymakers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476546
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How does firm survival differ between business takeovers and new venture start-ups?
Xi, Guoqian; Block, Jörn; Lasch, Frank C.; Robert, Frank; … - 2017
Focusing on entrepreneurship entry modes, we investigate two research questions regarding firm survival: how does the … survival probability differ between business takeovers and new venture start-ups? And how do the determinants of survival … chance than new venture start-ups. Yet, the differences between two entry modes partially disappear when controlling for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763818
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Crowdfunding, cascades and informed investors
Parker, Simon C. - 2014
Do higher proportions of (a) informed investors and (b) high-quality projects increase the number of good projects that are ultimately financed via crowdfunding? A simple model and simulation reveals the answers to both questions to be: "not necessarily".
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252710
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International mobility of the highly skilled, endogenous R&D, and public infrastructure investment
Grossmann, Volker (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper theoretically and empirically analyzes the interaction of emigration of highly skilled labor, an economy's income gap to potential host economies of expatriates, and optimal public infrastructure investment. In a model with endogenous education and R&D investment decisions we show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003656920
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Defensive Innovations
Koeniger, Winfried - 2002
Defensive innovations in developed countries can explain the empirical phenomenon that openness towards trade with less-developed countries does not necessarily induce a substantial increase in the wage differential and trade volumes. Building on step-by-step innovations as introduced by Aghion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406885
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How do industries and firms respond to changes in local labor supply?
Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht - 2011
In this paper, we investigate how changes in the skill mix of local labor supply are absorbed by the economy. We distinguish between three adjustment mechanisms: through factor prices, through an expansion in the size of those production units that use the more abundant skill group more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009524993
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To be or not to be : the entrepreneur in neo-Schumpeterian growth theory
Henrekson, Magnus; Johansson, Dan; Karlsson, Johan - 2022
Based on a review of 700+ peer-reviewed articles since 1990, identified using text mining methodology and supervised machine learning, we analyze how neo-Schumpeterian growth theorists relate to the entrepreneur-centered view of Schumpeter (1934) and the entrepreneurless framework of Schumpeter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013412825
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The advantage of experienced start-up founders in venture capital acquisition : evidence from serial entrepreneurs
Zhang, Junfu (contributor) - 2007
Existing literature suggests that entrepreneurs with prior firm-founding experience have more skills and social connections than novice entrepreneurs. Such skills and social connections could give experienced founders some advantage in the process of raising venture capital. This paper uses a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003632107
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A study of academic entrepreneurs using venture capital data
Zhang, Junfu (contributor) - 2007
academy membership and number of faculty awards, measures of a university's research quality, are the most significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003539354
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The interdependence of R&D activity and debt financing of young firms
Fryges, Helmut; Kohn, Karsten; Ullrich, Katrin - 2011
structure ; business start-ups ; KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel ; Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523478