Previous studies demonstrate that policy makers and practitioners should target support tailored to special needs of novice and habitual entrepreneurs. This paper aims to present a study of the role of prior business experience in the inclination to use external business support and the choice...

This paper takes the recent public policy proposals of the EU Commission to foster the growth of "unicorns" through direct interventions in the venture capital market as an entry point to inquire into the changing role of the EU in European Venture Capital Markets in the last three decades....

The aim of this study is to examine the regional policy and the governance model of Lombardy and to highlight the most important factors of its success and to address the relevant risks. The main source of success of Lombardy was the implementation of the subsidiarity principle in the area of...