We model the influence of network effects on an entrepreneur's decision to pursue an IPO or exit via an asset sale. Our model shows that strong network externalities (in the entrepreneur's product) make an asset sale a more attractive exit strategy. This effect requires that there is a potential...

We test in the laboratory how entrepreneurs' skill perceptions influence the design of financing and advising contracts. Our theoretical framework proposes that self-confident entrepreneurs prefer issuing debt whereas low self-confident ones prefer equity which induces strong investor...

Although the area of innovation economics dates back to the early twentieth century with the seminal contributions of Schumpeter (1911), it is only recently that governments have understood the role of a comprehensive approach towards public sector economics that puts innovation systems in the...