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Financial signalling by innovative nascent entrepreneurs
Audretsch, David B.; Bönte, Werner; Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - 2009
External finance is central for nascent entrepreneurs, people in the process of starting new ventures. We argue that nascent entrepreneurs use patents and prototypes in order to signal their ability to appropriate the returns from their innovation as well as the projectś feasibility. Our...
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Innovative start-up patenting : a new approach towards identification and determinants
Wolf, Tina - 2013
been few attempts to assess this group of firms ́propensity to patent or its patenting activities. This paper intends to … undercounting of small firm patenting, which has been a feature of most of the earlier studies. A data set is used that comprises … of the zero-inflated negative binomial regression analysis suggest that patenting is an activity of science …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009784061
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Initiation of knowledge and technology transfer from academia to industry : opportunity recognition and transfer channel choice
Hügel, Matthias; Doerr, Philip; Kalthaus, Martin - 2023
The transfer of knowledge and technology from academia to industry is usually understood as a process. While previous research focuses on phenomena along the process and its outcomes, the starting point of the process - the initiation of a transfer activity - remains unstudied. We provide first...
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Cross-faculty proximity and academic entrepreneurship : the role of business schools
Göthner, Maximilian; Wyrwich, Michael - 2017
Over the past decades, entrepreneurial activity has started to be considered a third mission of higher education institutions. Our study examines the extent to which entrepreneurship at universities is driven by spatial proximity between university faculties. To this end, we use a new dataset...
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EU-US differences in the size of R&D intensive firms : do they explain the overall R&D intensity gap?
Ortega-Argilés, Raquel (contributor);  … - 2008
The average firm size of the top R&D investors among US-based companies is smaller than that of the EU-based firms. Does this help to explain why the US has a greater R&D intensity, or is the higher firm size in the EU, just as its lower R&D intensity, determined by the sectors in which the top...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003724213
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We need to talk : or do we? : geographic distance and the commercialization of technologies from public research
Bünstorf, Guido; Schacht, Alexander - 2011
Using a new dataset with detailed geographic information about licensing activities of the Max Planck Society, Germany's largest non-university public research organization, we analyze how the probability and magnitude of commercial success are affected by geographic distance between licensors...
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Institutional influences on strategic entrepreneurial behaviours
Autio, Erkko; Acs, Zoltán J. - 2009
The purpose of this paper is to examine the existence of cross-level moderating effects between national appropriability conditions, individual level predictors and entrepreneurial growth aspirations. We test a multi-level model that connects the determinants of strategic resource allocation...
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Start-ups, long- and short-term survivors and their effect on regional employment growth
Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian - 2009
We investigate the effects that regional start-up activity has on employment in new and in incumbent businesses. The analysis is performed for West German regions over the 1987-2002 period. It shows that the effects of new businesses on employment in the incumbents are significantly positive and...
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Are more start-ups really better? : quantity and quality of new businesses and their effect on regional development
Fritsch, Michael; Schroeter, Alexandra - 2009
Empirical analyses suggest that the employment creating effect of start-ups is highest in regions with a low level of new business formation and that an increase in the regional start-up rate beyond a certain level may lead to negative employment effect. In explaining these results, we assume...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003887125
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Socioeconomic heritage and rapid firm growth
Wyrwich, Michael - 2009
The present paper sheds light on how growth of young firms is affected by expansive strategies and the socioeconomic heritage of their main actors. "Socioeconomic heritage" has to do with socialization, prior socioeconomic circumstances, and regional growth conditions; the term is elaborated...
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