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Firm Growth in High-tech Sectors: The Impact of Founders' Human Capital and Access to Venture Capital Financing
Colombo Massimo G.; Luca, Grilli - In: L'industria (2008) 1, pp. 85-116
We analyze the effects of founders' human capital and access to venture capital (VC) financing on the growth of new technology-based firms (NTBFs). In the empirical section, we consider a sample composed of 503 Italian NTBFs that operate both in manufacturing and services. In assessing the...
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Innovationsaktivitäten in den neuen Bundesländern
Penzkofer, Horst - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 45 (1992) 15, pp. 03-09
Die Erhebungen ergaben, daß sich sowohl der Anteil der Produktinnovatoren als auch der Anteil der Prozeßinnovatoren erhöht hat. Parallel dazu verbesserte sich auch die Umsatzstruktur. Beide Effekte dürften allerdings in erheblichem Umfang durch das Ausscheiden von nicht-innovativen...
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"Jahr der Innovation": Unternehmensrealität versus politisches Wunschdenken
Schmalholz, Heinz; Penzkofer, Horst - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 57 (2004) 19, pp. 19-24
Trotz ungünstiger Rahmenbedingungen konnten die Innovationsaktivitäten der sächsischen Industrieunternehmen im vergangenen Jahr auf einem noch relativ hohen Niveau aufrechterhalten werden. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt eine Untersuchung des ifo Instituts, München und der Niederlassung Dresden,...
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When does funding research by smaller firms bear fruit?: Evidence from the SBIR program*
Gans, Joshua; Stern, Scott - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 12 (2003) 4, pp. 361-384
This paper evaluates whether the relative concentration of funding for small, research-oriented firms in a small number of high-technology industries is related to differences across industries in the appropriability level facing small firms. We exploit a novel test based on the relationship...
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Optimal Public Policy for Venture Capital Backed Innovation
Keuschnigg, Christian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
regard to the capital gains tax, innovation subsidy, public R&D spending and other policy initiatives. …
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Venture Capital Backed Growth
Keuschnigg, Christian - CESifo - 2002
The paper proposes a simple equilibrium model of venture capital, entrepreneurship and innovation. Venture capitalists … productive and active VC industry boosts innovation driven growth. …
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INNOVATION AND VENTURE CAPITAL EXITS
SCHWIENBACHER, Armin - EconWPA - 2001
-improving product innovation. We explicitly introduce product market characteristics into the analysis with the aim to identify their … capitalist. The entrepreneur has incentives to distort the innovation strategy so as to make an IPO the preferred exit. We derive …
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Venture Capital Backed Growth
Keuschnigg, Christian - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2002
The paper proposes a simple equilibrium model of venture capital, entrepreneurship and innovation. Venture capitalists … productive and active VC industry boosts innovation driven growth. …
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Essays on India’s Economy: Growth and Innovation
Singh, Nirvikar - Center for Global, International and Regional Studies, … - 2014
essays, which cover a period of almost four years, from August 2010 to June 2014, are issues of growth and innovation in … growth. The second part examines innovation in the context of manufacturing, education, information technology, management …
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Who Becomes the Winner? Effects of Venture Capital on Firms’ Innovative Incentives - A Theoretical Investigation
Beacham, Matthew; Datta, Bipasa - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2013
of innovation at industry level and the professionalisation of firms at micro-level. Whilst the VC-to-success link has … whether VC spurs innovation (i) directly after being granted; (ii) indirectly by incentivising firms to increase initial …. Our results show that VC has both direct and indirect effects on firms' innovation decisions regardless of whether the …
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