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Creating good public policy to support high-growth firms

Mason, Colin; Brown, Ross - In: Small Business Economics 40 (2013) 2, pp. 211-225

Writing in Small Business Economics Scott Shane argues that policy-makers should stop subsidising start-ups and instead focus on supporting the small subset of new businesses with high growth potential. However, both Shane and other scholars who have made the same argument only offer broad-brush...

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The capital gap for small technology companies: public venture capital to the rescue?

del-Palacio, Itxaso; Zhang, Xiaotian; Sole, Francesc - In: Small Business Economics 38 (2012) 3, pp. 283-301

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Learning from own and others’ previous experience: the contribution of the venture capital firm to the likelihood of a portfolio company’s trade sale

Clarysse, Bart; Bobelyn, Annelies; Aguirre, Itxaso Palacio - In: Small Business Economics 40 (2013) 3, pp. 575-590

The objective of this paper is to examine to what extent different venture capital firms contribute to the likelihood that the portfolio company in which they invested will realize a trade sale. We use arguments from learning theory to hypothesize the relationship between vicarious, experiential...

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Maryann Feldman: Recipient of the 2013 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research

Lorenzen, Mark; Carlsson, Bo - In: Small Business Economics 43 (2014) 1, pp. 1-8

This article reviews the scientific contributions of the 2013 recipient of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship … clustering. She has also addressed other important aspects of contemporary entrepreneurship research, such as how academic … entrepreneurship is influenced by intellectual property rights and modes of finance and how high-technology entrepreneurship aligns …

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Leveraging entrepreneurship through private investments: does gender matter?

Gicheva, Dora; Link, Albert - In: Small Business Economics 40 (2013) 2, pp. 199-210

Using project data from a random sample of Phase II research awards from the National Institutes of Health SBIR program, we estimate the relative probability that woman-owned firms are able to attract private investments to fund the transition of the technology developed under the sponsorship of...

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