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Entrepreneurial exit in real and imagined markets
Stam, Erik; Thurik, Adriaan R.; Zwan, Peter van der - 2009 - Version: October 2009
Entrepreneurs exit their business due to selection mechanisms experienced in the market place. Next to this well known ex-post decision to exit, entrepreneurs select ex-ante whether they are willing to pursue an entrepreneurial career at all, or to give up these entrepreneurial intentions. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374393
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The role of R&D in new firm growth
Stam, Erik; Wennberg, Karl - 2009
Innovative start-ups are an important driver of economic growth. This article presents empirical evidence on the … effects of R&D on new product development, inter-firm alliances and employment growth during the early life course of firms …. We use a dataset that contains a sample of new firms that is representative for the whole population of start-ups. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003803128
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Is productive entrepreneurship getting scarcer? : a reflection on the contemporary relevance of Baumol's typology
Minniti, Maria; Naudé, Wim; Stam, Erik - 2023
We review Baumol's typology of productive, unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship. We argue that the typology is relevant for explaining the secular decline in business dynamics. To the existing explanations for this decline, we put forward the thesis that entrepreneurship has become less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014335837
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Open Business Models and Venture Capital Finance
Colombo, Massimo G. - 2016
We investigate the differences in venture capital (VC) governance of investee firms with Open Business Models (OBMs), specifically Open Source Software (OSS), versus closed business models. Due to OSS's pronounced complexity and uncertainty, we conjecture that VC-backed OSS firms are more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013005571
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The Roles of R&D in New Firm Growth
Stam, Erik - 2015
Innovative start-ups are an important driver of economic growth. This article presents empirical evidence on the … effects of R&D on new product development, inter-firm alliances and employment growth during the early life course of firms …. We use a dataset that contains a sample of new firms that is representative for the whole population of start-ups. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034941
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Entrepreneurial Exit in Real and Imagined Markets
Stam, Erik; Thurik, Roy; van der Zwan, Peter - 2008
Entrepreneurs exit their business due to selection mechanisms experienced in the market place. Next to this well known ex-post decision to exit, entrepreneurs select ex-ante whether they are willing to pursue an entrepreneurial career at all, or to give up these entrepreneurial intentions. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014047668
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Ownership Structure, Horizontal Agency Costs and the Performance of High-Tech Entrepreneurial Firms
Colombo, Massimo G. - 2014
We use the lens of the resource-based view and horizontal agency cost theory to analyse the effect of the presence of different types of individual owners, i.e. owner-managers and non-manager individual shareholders, on the performance of high-tech entrepreneurial firms. Ownership enlargement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069123
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R&D Subsidies and the Performance of High-Tech Start-Ups
Colombo, Massimo G. - 2014
We address the key question of the efficacy of R&D policy measures in support of hightech start-ups. Distinguishing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069255
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Academic institutions and the changing entrepreneurial finance landscape
Pierrakis, Yannis; Berbegal-Mirabent, Jasmina; … - In: Venture capital : an international journal of … 25 (2023) 3, pp. 205-217
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014339723
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Employment growth of new firms
Stam, Erik; Gibcus, Petra; Telussa, Jennifer; Garnsey, … - In: Entrepreneurship, sustainable growth and performance : …, (pp. 324-351). 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003756165