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The perceived value-added of venture capital investors: Evidence from Finnish biotechnology industry

Maunula, Mari - 2006

This study focuses on the non-financial value-added of venture capital investors (VCs) as perceived by the CEOs of Finnish biotechnology companies. It pays attention to differences in the value-added between informal venture capitalists, private sector venture capitalists and public sector...

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Do foreign players change the nature of the game among local entrepreneurs?

Maliranta, Mika; Nurmi, Satu - 2004

new, exceptionally rich linked data on employees, entrepreneurs and their companies. Our new indicator of foreign presence … pressure in a way that selects efficient entrepreneurs from inefficient ones, which stimulates productivity …-enhancing restructuring at the micro-level. In contrast to the theoretical prediction, higher education does not seem to make entrepreneurs …

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The Finnish paradox: The curious absence of high-growth entrepreneurship in Finland

Autio, Erkko - 2009

This paper looks at how well Finland performs in high growth entrepreneurship and uses data from the Global Entrepreneurship monitor to benchmark Finland against other European countries. It is found that Finland's prevalence rate of high growth entrepreneurial activity lags significantly behind...

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High growth firms and job creation in Finland

Deschryvere, Matthias - 2008

The goal of this descriptive paper is to identify which firms add the most employment in Finland. The analysis is based on firm and establishment data from the Finnish Business Register (period 2003-2006). It is found that in 2006 Finland had 750 High Growth Firms (according to the...

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Analyzing entrepreneurship with the Finnish Linked Employer-Employee Data (FLEED): Matching and qualitative properties of the data

Maliranta, Mika; Nurmi, Satu - 2004

companies to their owner entrepreneurs directly, which currently seriously limits the usefulness of the data for entrepreneurial …-employment ; entrepreneurs … perusteella tarjoaisi mahdollisuuksia moniin tutkimuskysymyksiin. – Data ; self-employment ; entrepreneurs …

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What makes an entrepreneurship independent? Evidence from time use survey

Hyytinen, Ari; Ruuskanen, Olli-Pekka - 2006

It is a well-documented empirical regularity that it is more satisfying to be self-employed than to work as an employee for an organization. A large part of this difference in job satisfaction is in the literature attributed to the strong perception of independence by the self-employed. In this...

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Taxation and entrepreneurship

Haaparanta, Pertti; Piekkola, Hannu - 2001

The paper analyses the impacts of occupational choice and entrepreneurial effort on the structure of wage, profit and capital taxation. Entrepreneurial effort is unobservable and therefore not tax-deductible. The optimal profit tax is less than unity even if individual entrepreneurial effort is...

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Uusyrittäjien kasvuhakuisuus

Pajarinen, Mika; Rouvinen, Petri; Ylä-Anttila, Pekka - 2006

Tässä raportissa tutkitaan aloittavia ja erityisesti kasvuhakuisia yrittäjiä ja heidän yrityksiään laajaa tietokoneavusteista puhelinkyselyä hyödyntäen. Tulosten valossa näyttää siltä, että kasvuhakuinen uusyrittäjä on usein korkeahkon teknisen koulutuksen omaava mies, hänellä...

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Inside the Family Firm

Bennedsen, Morten; Nielsen, Kasper; Pérez-González, … - 2005

This paper uses a unique dataset from Denmark to investigate (1) the role of family characteristics in corporate decision making, and (2) the consequences of these decisions on firm performance. We focus on the decision to appoint either a family or an external chief executive officer (CEO). We...

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Importance of the non-financial value added of government and independent venture capitalists

Luukkonen, Terttu; Deschryvere, Matthias; Bertoni, Fabio; … - 2011

This paper compares the post-investment value-added activities performed by governmental venture capital (GVC) and independent venture capital (IVC) for their portfolio companies, and controls for the selection effect that the different investment profiles of these investors might have on the...

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