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Demography and Innovative Entrepreneurship

Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or...

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R&D strategies and entrepreneurial spawning

Andersson, Martin; Baltzopoulos, Apostolos; Lööf, Hans - In: Research Policy 41 (2012) 1, pp. 54-68

This paper analyzes how different R&D strategies of incumbent firms affect the quantity and quality of their entrepreneurial spawning. When examining entrepreneurial ventures of ex-employees of firms with different R&D strategies, three things emerge: First, firms with persistent R&D investments...

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Small business innovation: firm level evidence from Sweden

Andersson, Martin; Lööf, Hans - In: The Journal of Technology Transfer 37 (2012) 5, pp. 732-754

This paper examines innovation among very small firms and provides new insights into both internal and external … for the period 2000–2006, the following facts emerge: (i) in contrast to larger firms, innovation in micro firms with 1 … innovation among micro firms compared to other firms, (iii) affiliation to a domestically owned multinational enterprise group …

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Key Characteristics of the Small Innovative Firm

Andersson, Martin; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

innovation activities captured by patent applications, firm characteristics, international trade and the regional milieu. …

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Financial Signaling by Innovative Nascent Entrepreneurs

Audretsch, David B.; Bönte, Werner; Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

innovation as well as the project's feasibility. Our analysis of 900 nascent entrepreneurs finds that patents and prototypes … increase the likelihood of obtaining equity finance. Thus, if signals are credible, innovation positively impacts external … that the relation between finance and innovation depends on the stage of a start-up lifecycle. …

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Financial signaling by innovative nascent ventures: The relevance of patents and prototypes

Audretsch, David B.; Bönte, Werner; Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - In: Research Policy 41 (2012) 8, pp. 1407-1421

External finance is a central issue for innovative nascent ventures. In this study, we argue that innovative nascent ventures may use patents to signal appropriability and prototypes to signal feasibility to potential investors. Using new data on 906 nascent ventures, we find that nascent...

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Financial Signalling by Innovative Nascent Entrepreneurs

Audretsch, David B; Bönte, Werner; Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

innovation to the financiers through patenting and prototyping activities, right in the early stages of the venture. We build a …

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