For firms acting in technological niches the expansion into foreign markets can be a way to increase sales and to thus to recover initial sunk costs over a shorter time frame. Our research, based on survey data for nearly 600 British and German high-tech start-ups, examines whether...

For firms acting in technological niches the expansion into foreign markets can be a way to increase sales and to thus to recover initial sunk costs over a shorter time frame. Our research, based on survey data for nearly 600 British and German high-tech start-ups, examines whether...

When large firms invest in newly created smallbusinesses, they are engaging in corporate venturing.Corporate venturinghas a cyclical popularity, most recently reaching great heights during thedot-com surge of the 1990s.Following this period, declines in U.S.corporate venturing have occurred due...