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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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Sources of knowledge used by entrepreneurial firms in the European high-tech sector
Amoroso, Sara; Audretsch, David B.; Link, Albert N. - 2017
The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between an entrepreneur's experience and education and his/her reliance on alternative sources of knowledge for exploring new business opportunities. The extant literature that is at the crossroads between sources of knowledge and the...
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Entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial skills in Europe : examples to improve potential entrepreneurial spirit
David, Alexandra (ed.); Hamburg, Ileana (ed.) - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011566267
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New Technology-Based Firms in Europe : Market Penetration, Public Venture Capital, and Timing of Investment
Grilli, Luca - 2015
We investigate the effect of public (PUVC) and private (PRVC) venture capital funds on the sales growth of 6,513 European New Technology-Based Firms (NTBFs) during the period from 1992 to 2009. Our results show that PUVC-backed NTBFs underperform with respect to PRVC-backed ones and do not grow...
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Does Acquisition Lead to the Growth of High-tech Scaleups? Evidence From Europe
Burger, Anze; Hogan, Teresa; Kotnik, Patricia; Rao, Sandeep - 2022
The post-acquisition growth of high-tech scaleups has received relatively little research attention. This is surprising since buyers are known to target these firms for growth opportunities whilst sellers increasingly seek strategic partners to access resource to scale their ventures. We examine...
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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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Entrepreneurial activity and economic growth : a dynamic data panel analysis of European countries
Gomes, Sofia; Ferreira, Pedro - In: Entrepreneurial business and economics review : EBER 10 (2022) 2, pp. 7-20
entrepreneurship driven by opportunity (directly or indirectly by perceived capacities) is a key factor in stimulating the European … that analyses the impact of entrepreneurship on economic growth, but using a sample of countries in Europe (there are few … the global entrepreneurship monitor (GEM) to assess their impact of entrepreneurship on countries’ economic growth. …
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Challenges of entrepreneurship development in Europe in the light of the pandemic crisis
Remeikienė, Rita; Gasparėnienė, Ligita; Fedajev, … - In: Journal of business economics and management 24 (2023) 2, pp. 354-367
The paper aims to perform an objective comparative analysis of the business climate for entrepreneurship development in … from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor report and TOPSIS methodology combined with entropy to perform a comparative … analysis of the business climate for entrepreneurship development in selected European economies in 2021. Usage of TOPSIS and …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014454594
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Entrepreneurial Progress: Climbing The Entrepreneurial Ladder in Europe and The US
van der Zwan, Peter; Verheul, Ingrid; Thurik, Roy; … - 2009
through these stages. Data are used from the 2007 “Flash Eurobarometer Survey on Entrepreneurship”, covering 27 European …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325726