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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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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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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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A novel method is applied to evaluate the effect of capital constraints on entrepreneurial performance on a panel of 1,000 Dutch entrepreneurs. We find that initial capital constraints hinder entrepreneurs in their performance, even when we control for various human capital and other factors...
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This article investigates empirically whether and to what extent initial capital constraints hinder entrepreneurial performance once the venture has been started. Prior empirical research in this area could investigate this issue only indirectly by lack of data. The key contribution of this...
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economy. In particular, the empirical evidence provides consistent support that (1) the role of entrepreneurship has … may be that the current approach to entrepreneurship policy is misguided. The priority should not be on entrepreneurship …
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. We also show that commercialization support induces entrepreneurship but may lead to mediocre entrepreneurship by … inducing entrepreneurs to choose less risky projects, whereas R&D support encourages entrepreneurship without affecting the … type of entrepreneurship. Using Swedish patent citation data, we find empirical support for predictions of the model …
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This study aims to examine the effect of entrepreneurship education and artificial intelligence (AI) development on … for individual and contextual socioeconomic factors. This study tries to fill the gap in the entrepreneurship literature …, which is still lacking with respect to the impact of new technologies on entrepreneurship intentions and shows conflicting …
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We examine whether impact investing is more effective in fostering business venture success and social impact when investments are directed toward ventures located in disadvantaged urban areas (that is, areas with high crime, unemployment, and poverty) compared to similar investments directed...
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A novel method is applied to evaluate the effect of capital constraints on entrepreneurial performance on a panel of 1,000 Dutch entrepreneurs. We find that initial capital constraints hinder entrepreneurs in their performance, even when we control for various human capital and other factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320045