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Businessman or Host? Individual Differences between Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners in the Hospitality Industry
Wagener, Stephanie L. - 2013
Prior research has identified individual characteristics that distinguish business owners from non-business owners. We tested our contention that not every successful business owner can be characterized by such typical ldquo;entrepreneurialrdquo; characteristics. Multiple Analysis of Variance...
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Fit and complementarity: cognitive distance and combined competence as predictors of co-operative R&D projects' outcomes in Europe
Zibell, Laurent; Allen, Peter M. - 2009
This article considers cognitive distance and combined competence as predictors of concrete outcomes in co-operative Research and Development projects. The operationalisation is based upon a dedicated survey, answered by matched pairs of projects managers in partnering organisations, addressing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299501
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Success Factors for Transferring Technology to Spin-Off Applications : The Case of the Technology Property Rights Concession Program in Korea
Choi, Younghoon; Lee, Jang-Jae - 2015
This paper is a study of 127 firms participating in Korea's Technology Property Rights Concession Program, a program designed to stimulate technology transfers related to spin-off applications of public technology. The purpose is to identify the determinants of transfer success. The findings...
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Predictive Patentomics : Forecasting Innovation Success and Valuation with ChatGPT
Yang, Stephen - 2023
Analysis of innovation has been fundamentally limited by conventional approaches to broad, structural variables. This paper pushes the boundaries, taking an LLM approach to patent analysis with the groundbreaking ChatGPT technology. OpenAI’s state-of-the-art textual model accesses complex...
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Catalyzing Success : Unveiling the Value of Mentors in Startup Accelerators
Rechter, Eyal; Avnimelech, Gil - 2023
In the last decade, the entrepreneurial ecosystem has seen the emergence of a new support infrastructure – the startup accelerator. These programs offer a structured developmental process to novice entrepreneurs and their startups. Although mentoring is a central aspect of most accelerators,...
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Harnessing Success : Determinants of University Technology Licensing Performance
Belenzon, Sharon - 2008
We study the impact of incentive pay, local development objectives and government constraints on university licensing … performance. We develop and test a simple contracting model of technology licensing offices, using new survey information together … pay than public ones, but ownership does not affect licensing performance conditional on the use of incentive pay …
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Are education and entrepreneurial income endogenous and do family background variables make sense as instruments? : a Bayesian analysis
Block, Jörn; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: February 2010
Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826247
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Entrepreneurial progress : climbing the entrepreneurial ladder in Europe and the US
Zwan, Peter van der; Verheul, Ingrid; Thurik, Adriaan R.; … - 2010 - Version: March 2010
through these stages. Data are used from the 2007 “Flash Eurobarometer Survey on Entrepreneurship”, covering 27 European …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011378847
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Are education and entrepreneurial income endogenous and do family background variables make sense as instruments? : a Bayesian analysis
Block, Jörn; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: February 2010
Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011380037
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Entrepreneurial choices of initial human capital endowments and new venture success
Rocha, Vera; Praag, Mirjam van; Folta, Timothy B.; … - 2016
The founder (team)ś human capital is a vital determinant of future firm performance. This is a stylized fact. Less is known about the effect of the human capital of the initial workforce hired by the founder(s). We study the performance consequences of a founderś choice of the initial...
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