This study aims to examines the effects of an entrepreneur's human capital characteristics in early-stage firms in Korean venture industry. The data come from 260 firms which was gone public during 2000s in the Korean information technology (IT) industry. We consider age, schooling, and...

Entrepreneurship is essential to job creation and to productivity growth and therefore is an important matter for government policy. However, policymakers face a difficult challenge because successful growth for a few firms-which cannot easily be identified in advance-is accompanied by...