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To Be Financed or Not... - The Role of Patents for Venture Capital Financing
Haeussler, Carolin; Harhoff, Dietmar; Müller, Elisabeth - 2009
This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncertainty and therefore rely on patents as signals when trying to assess the prospects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333772
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How does entry regulation influence entry into selfemployment and occupational mobility?
Prantl, Susanne; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2009
We analyze how an entry regulation that imposes a mandatory educational standard affects entry into self-employment and occupational mobility. We exploit the German reunification as a natural experiment and identify regulatory effects by comparing differences between regulated occupations and...
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The Effects of Entrepreneurship Education
Weber, Richard; von Graevenitz, Georg; Harhoff, Dietmar - 2009
data from a compulsory entrepreneurship course at a German university. Using survey responses from 189 students ex ante and …Entrepreneurship education ranks highly on policy agendas in Europe and the US, but little research is available to … assess its impacts. In this context it is of primary importance to understand whether entrepreneurship education raises …
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