This paper investigates the effect of compensation of corporate personnel on their investment in new technologies. To that end, we focus on a specific corporate activity, namely Corporate Venture Capital (CVC), describing minority equity investment by established firms in entrepreneurial...

The Evolution of a New Industry traces the emergence and growth of the Israeli hi-tech sector to provide a new understanding of industry evolution. In the case of Israel, the authors reveal how the hi-tech sector built an entrepreneurial culture with a capacity to disseminate intergenerational...

This book is the first to explore industry evolution using a historical and genealogical approach. The authors' analysis departs from traditional studies and draws attention to the dynamics of evolution, while relating the effects of parent company conditions to their corporate progeny and...