Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 426
Cover Image
Diversity and Performance in Entrepreneurial Teams
Calder-Wang, Sophie; Gompers, Paul A.; Huang, Kanyuan … - 2022
We study the role of diversity and performance in the entrepreneurial teams. We exploit a unique dataset of MBA students who participated in a required course to propose and start a real micro-business that allows us to examine horizontal diversity (i.e., within the team) as well as vertical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014238417
Cover Image
University Invention, Entrepreneurship, and Start-Ups
Chukumba, Celestine O.; Jensen, Richard A. - 2021
This paper develops a game-theoretic model that predicts when a university invention is commercialized in a start-up firm rather than an established firm. The model predicts that university inventions are more likely to occur in start-ups when the technology transfer officers (TTOs) search cost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013229010
Cover Image
University Entrepreneurship and Professor Privilege
Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika - 2014
This paper analyzes how institutional differences affect university entrepreneurship. We focus on ownership of faculty … commercialization; entrepreneurship or licenses to established firms, as well as on probabilities of successful commercialization. We … find that the US system is less conducive to entrepreneurship than the Swedish system if established firms have some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066279
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068298
Cover Image
Financial Integration, Entrepreneurial Risk and Global Imbalances
Angeletos, George-Marios - 2014
How does financial integration impact capital accumulation, current-account dynamics, and cross-country inequality? We investigate this question within a two-country, general-equilibrium, incomplete-markets model that focuses on the importance of idiosyncratic entrepreneurial risk-- a risk that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068649
Cover Image
Client-Based Entrepreneurship
Rauch, James E. - 2014
soliciting the current client in the event of termination of employment. The socially optimal level of entrepreneurship will … are too restrictive and produce too little entrepreneurship, and governments can increase welfare by limiting enforcement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069964
Cover Image
Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship
Kerr, William - 2014
important role that entrepreneurship is believed to play in the process of economic growth, alleviating financing constraints … examining the relevance of financing constraints for entrepreneurship. We then introduce a framework that provides a unified …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070601
Cover Image
Self-Employment Dynamics and the Returns to Entrepreneurship
Dillon, Eleanor Wiske - 2017
with experimentation to learn about earnings. This pattern motivates estimating the expected returns to entrepreneurship … found to constitute a substantial portion of the monetary value of entrepreneurship. The model is then used to evaluate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963153
Cover Image
Tax Policy, Venture Capital, and Entrepreneurship
Keuschnigg, Christian - 2006
an entrepreneurial sector, the paper investigates the effects of taxes on the equilibrium level of entrepreneurship and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783952
Cover Image
Homophily in Entrepreneurial Team Formation
Gompers, Paul A. - 2017
entrepreneurship and venture capital industry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955437