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Venture Capitalists’ Evaluations of Start-up Teams:Trade-offs, Knock-out Criteria, and the Impact of VC Experience
Franke, Nikolaus; Gruber, Marc; Harhoff, Dietmar; … - Technische Universität <München> / Theo Schöller … - 2006
The start-up team plays a key role in venture capitalists’ evaluations of venture proposals. Ourfindings go beyond existing research, first by providing a detailed exploration of VCs’ team evaluationcriteria, and second by investigating the moderator variable of VC experience. Our results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870622
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What you are is what you like –similarity biases in venture capitalists’evaluations of start-up teams
Franke, Nikolaus; Gruber, Marc; Harhoff, Dietmar; … - Technische Universität <München> / Schöller Chair in … - 2005
This paper extends recent research studying biases in venture capitalist’s decision-making. Wecontribute to this literature by analyzing biases arising from similarity between a venture capitalist andmembers of a venture team. We summarize the psychological foundations of such similarity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870624
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Hochschulpräinkubatoren und ihr Einfluss aufUnternehmensgründungen in der Planungsphase:Eine qualitativ-empirische Analyse
Fischer, Mareike - Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre <Lüneburg> / … - 2011
Aus der internationalen wirtschaftspolitischen Diskussion und damit auch aus der wirtschaftspolitischen Diskussion Deutschlands ist das Thema Unternehmensgründung1 mittlerweile nicht mehr wegzudenken. Die große Bedeutung, die Unternehmensgründungen für eine Volkswirt-schaft zugeschrieben...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009302679
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Screening von Gründungspotenzialen – Kompetenz-Ausgründungen aus Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen.Oder: Wie man Innovationspotenziale kartographiert
Karnani, Fritjof; Schulte, Reinhard - Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre <Lüneburg> / … - 2010
Nur etwa ein Drittel der Ausgründungen aus der Wissenschaft nutzen explizite Forschungsergebnisse. Der weit überwiegende Teil nutzt allgemeine Kenntnisse für die Gründung. Dies ist ein Phänomen, das bisher in der Literatur und in der Praxis kaum beachtet wurde. Der Artikel nähert sich dem...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009302681
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Migration and Rural Entrepreneurship
Li, Yu; Artz, Georgeanne M. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2009
This paper investigates entrepreneurship of migrants and their location choice in attempt to draw connections between … migration and economic development, especially the role of business formation in rural development. Rural entrepreneurship is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360760
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Who Starts a Business and Who is Self-Employedin Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Rusakova, Alina - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010,the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486960
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Transitions to Entrepreneurship andIndustry-Specific Barriers
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy; Parker, Simon C. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
entrepreneurship, wefind that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analysesof transitions to … entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants ofentrepreneurship.... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522199
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The practice of social entrepreneurship: Theory and the Swedish experience
Stryjan, Yohanan - Hochschule <Wismar> / Fachbereich Wirtschaft - 2005
The notion of social entrepreneurship has gained increasing recognition in thelast years, both as an increasingly … aSchumpeterian view of entrepreneurship, that centers on the creation of newcombinations of resources, and focuses on the nature of …-operative enterprises. Social entrepreneurship may be mapped on such a typology as acategory of entrepreneurship that primarily (a) is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863514
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The Effect of New Firm Formation on Regional Development over Time
Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela - Technische Universität <Freiberg> - 2004
In our analysis of the impact of new firm formation on regional employment change we identified considerable time lags.We investigated the structure and extent of these time lags by applying the Almon lag model and found that new firms can have both a positive and a negative effect on regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864227
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Regional Growth Regimes Revisited –The Case of West Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela - Technische Universität <Freiberg> - 2004
Audretsch and Fritsch (2002) proposed two explanations for the mixed evidenceregarding the relationship between new firm formation and regional development. Firstly,they found evidence for the existence of long time lags needed before the main effects of newfirm formation on employment change...
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