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Show Me the Right Stuff : Signals for High Tech Startups
Conti, Annamaria - 2015
We present a theoretical model of startup signaling with multiple signals and potential differences in external investor preferences. For a novel sample of technology incubator startups, we empirically examine the use of patents and founder, friends, and family (FFF) money as such signals,...
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The Short-Run Effects of Gdpr on Technology Venture Investment
Jia, Jian - 2018
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect in the European Union in May 2018. We study its short-run impact on investment in new and emerging technology firms. Our findings indicate negative post-GDPR effects on EU ventures, relative to their US counterparts. The negative...
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
Brown, J. David - 2019
We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …
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What is a Patent Worth? Evidence from the U.S. Patent “Lottery”
Farre-Mensa, Joan - 2017
quality, follow-on innovation. Winning a first patent boosts a startup's subsequent growth and innovation by facilitating …
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High Tech and Venture Capital Inflows : The Case of Israel
Razin, Assaf - 2018
countries flock to learn how to develop an innovation ecosystem. However, the domestic market alone is far too small and … homegrown capital formation insufficient to foster that innovation. Globalization has been essential. The paper reviews the …
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Movement of Star Scientists and Engineers and High-Tech Firm Entry
Zucker, Lynne G. - 2014
This paper analyzes the effects of top nanoscale scientists on industry entry in the comparative context of 5 major areas of science and technology, extending the concept of star scientist to all areas of science and technology. The results for nanotechnology are replicated using the...
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The First Deal : The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures
Hellmann, Thomas F. - 2014
This paper examines the division of founder shares in entrepreneurial ventures, focusing on the decision of whether or not to divide the shares equally among all founders. To motivate the empirical analysis we develop a simple theory of costly bargaining, where founders trade off the simplicity...
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Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship
Kerr, William - 2014
Financing constraints are one of the biggest concerns impacting potential entrepreneurs around the world. Given the important role that entrepreneurship is believed to play in the process of economic growth, alleviating financing constraints for would-be entrepreneurs is also an important goal...
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Tax Policy, Venture Capital, and Entrepreneurship
Keuschnigg, Christian - 2006
The paper studies the effects of tax policy on venture capital activity. Entrepreneurs pursue a single high risk project each but have no own resources. Financiers provide equity finance. They must structure the entrepreneur's profit share and base salary to assure their incentives for full...
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And the Children Shall Lead : Gender Diversity and Performance in Venture Capital
Gompers, Paul A. - 2017
With an overall lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the innovation sector documented in Gompers and Wang (2017), we …
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