In this paper we use the theoretical lens of resource and competence-based perspectives and global strategic network theories to analyze the effects of international R&D alliances on the performance of high-tech start-ups. In the empirical section of the paper we consider the European Union...

In this paper we aim to empirically test the monitoring effect of Venture Capital financing on portfolio companies. Following Bernstein et al. (2015), we exploit the introduction of a new airline route between investor and investee locations as an exogenous shock lowering the cost of monitoring...

This study replicates Dushnitsky and Shaver (2009) in an institutional setting different from the U.S., i.e. the European venture capital market. We highlight the role played by this switch of boundary condition in influencing how legal defenses protect new ventures' knowledge from...

Using a new European Commission-sponsored longitudinal dataset – the VICO dataset – we assess the impact of independent (IVC) and corporate venture capital (CVC) investments on the total factor productivity (TFP) of European high-tech entrepreneurial firms during the period 1992-2010. After...