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The Effects of Corporate Venture Capital, Founder Incumbency, and Their Interaction on Entrepreneurial Firms’ R&D Investment Strategy
Paik, Yongwook - 2017
Corporate venture capital (CVC) investment has increasingly become an important source of entrepreneurial finance. Accordingly, while scholars have traditionally focused on understanding the main motivations behind CVC activity and its impact on the investing corporate firm, more recently,...
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Democratizing Startups
Oranburg, Seth - 2018
The Jumpstart Our Business Startups (“JOBS”) Act of 2012 intends to “help entrepreneurs raise the capital they need to put Americans back to work and create an economy that's built to last.” The goal is to “democratize startups” by making capital available to diverse entrepreneurs in...
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Credit rationing or entrepreneurial risk aversion? : a comment
Bonilla, Claudio A.; Vergara, Marcos - In: Economics letters 120 (2013) 2, pp. 329-331
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The emergence of a new economy : an O-Ring approach
Fabel, Oliver - 2001
The O-Ring theory provides a framework for analyzing the effects of team production on the emergence of firms in the New Economy. Given risk-aversion of the potential team members, the productive advantage of perfect ability matching in teams suffices to establish an equilibrium which separates...
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The catch-22 of external validity in the context of constraints to firm growth
Fischer, Greg; Karlan, Dean - 2015
We document the presence of multiple and varied constraints to small and medium firm growth. This presents both a practical problem for business training programs and a challenge to academic economists trying to identify mechanisms though which these programs may affect outcomes. External...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481053
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The catch-22 of external validity in the context of constraints to firm growth
Fischer, Greg; Karlan, Dean S. - 2015
We document the presence of multiple and varied constraints to small and medium firm growth. This presents both a practical problem for business training programs and a challenge to academic economists trying to identify mechanisms though which these programs may affect outcomes. External...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507632
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Can government intervention make firms more investment-ready? A randomized experiment in the Western Balkans
Cusolito, Ana Paula; Dautovic, Ernest; McKenzie, David J. - 2020
Innovative firms with good ideas may still struggle to fine-tune them to the stage where they can attract outside funding. We conduct a five-country randomized experiment that tests the impact of an investment readiness program. Firms then pitched their ideas to independent judges. The program...
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Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Political Competition : How the Public Sector Helps the Sharing Economy Create Value
Paik, Yongwook - 2018
for the nonmarket strategy, entrepreneurship and innovation, and public-private partnership literatures. In addition, our …
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Measuring readiness for entrepreneurship : an information tool proposal
Coduras, Alicia; Saiz-Alvarez, José Manuel; Ruíz, Jesús - In: Journal of innovation & knowledge : JIK 1 (2016) 2, pp. 99-108
A profound review of the literature on entrepreneurship reveals that it does not exist a specific information tool to … measure the individuals' readiness for entrepreneurship. The purpose of this research has been building such kind of … instrument to estimate the individuals’ readiness for entrepreneurship. Its design takes in consideration the inclusion of the …
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Can government intervention make firms more investment-ready? : a randomized experiment in the Western Balkans
Cusolito, Ana Paula; Dautovic, Ernest; McKenzie, David J. - 2020
Innovative firms with good ideas may still struggle to fine-tune them to the stage where they can attract outside funding. We conduct a five-country randomized experiment that tests the impact of an investment readiness program. Firms then pitched their ideas to independent judges. The program...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012200841