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Work experience from paid employment and the path to entrepreneurship : business takeover versus new venture start-up
Xi, Guoqian; Block, Jörn; Lasch, Frank C.; Robert, Frank; … - 2016
entrepreneurship. We distinguish between two distinct entrepreneurship entry modes: business takeover and new venture start-up. Using a … large and rich French data set, we find that small firm experience increases the likelihood for business takeover, whereas …
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Government, Venture Capital and the Growth of European High-Tech Entrepreneurial Firms
Grilli, Luca - 2014
Using a new European Union-sponsored firm-level longitudinal dataset, we assess the impact of government-managed (GVC) and independent venture capital (IVC) funds on the sales and employee growth of European high-tech entrepreneurial firms. Our results show that the main statistically robust and...
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New Venture Creation : How Start-Ups Grow?
Salamzadeh, Aidin - 2017
Start-ups, often seen as sources of innovation and change, are prone to failure and accordingly they are attracting considerable attention not least from policy makers and Government officials. However, the various new venture creation studies that have emerged since the early 1980s lack...
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The development of the Central and Eastern European venture capital market in Europe
Karsai, Judit - 2023
The working paper examines the role and development of the Central and Eastern European venture capital sector in the five years between 2016 and 2020. This period includes both the end of the recovery after the economic crisis in 2008 and the downturn due to the coronavirus crisis in 2019. A...
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Promoting the financing of SMEs and start-ups in Korea
Jones, Randall Sidney; Kim, Myungkyoo - 2014
The Korean government has made fostering a “creative economy” a top priority. The goal is to shift Korea's economic paradigm to one based on innovation in which new start-ups and venture businesses play a key role. However, the venture capital market is still at an early stage of...
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Fostering a creative economy to drive Korean growth
Jones, Randall Sidney; Kim, Myungkyoo - 2014
A creative economy requires innovation-friendly conditions. Korea’s innovation system should be improved by upgrading universities and expanding their role in business R&D, while increasing international collaboration in R&D from its current low level. The returns from Korea’s large...
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Mode of Entry into Hybrid Entrepreneurship : New Venture Start-Up Versus Business Takeover
Xi, Guoqian - 2017
entrepreneurship. Little is known about the entry modes (new venture start-up vs. business takeover) of hybrid entrepreneurs. Our study … female, having worker experience, and having received social benefits are linked to business takeover. With these results … takeover, which is of high interest, given the growing number of businesses seeking outside successors …
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The Imprinting of Founders’ Human Capital on Entrepreneurial Venture Growth : Evidence from New Technology-Based Firms
Grilli, Luca - 2016
This paper tests the presence of an ‘entrepreneurial imprinting effect' of founders' human capital on entrepreneurial ventures' sales growth performance. More specifically, we disentangle the effect of the stock of human capital possessed at foundation from the potential injections and losses...
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The role of openness and entrepreneurial curiosity in company's growth
Jeraj, Mitja; Marič, Miha; Todorović, Ivan; Čudanov, … - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 17 (2015) 38, pp. 371-389
Entrepreneurial curiosity is an entrepreneurial-psychology related construct that measures a level of entrepreneurial curiosity among entrepreneurs. Key research objectives of the study were to empirically test how two independent constructs as openness and company's growth are connected to...
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Entrepreneurship policy and firm performance Chile's CORFO Seed Capital Program
Navarro, Lucas - In: Estudios de economía 45 (2018) 2, pp. 301-316
This paper uses administrative data from projects for which an application was made to CORFO’s (Chile’s main development agency) Seed Capital Program (SCP) during the 2008-12 period. This paper analyzes the likely impact of the program-which is a subsidy provided to new, innovative firms on...
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