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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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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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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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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...
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for the nonmarket strategy, entrepreneurship and innovation, and public-private partnership literatures. In addition, our …
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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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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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In this second version of this working paper, Emile Loza discusses the need to conceptualize innovation as a market system and identifies some of the actors, types of capital, and legal infrastructure needed to accelerate the deployment of innovation and improve the sustainability of innovators....
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