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Seven 'Corporate Venturing' Strategies to Foster Innovation (and Create an Environment for Long-Term Growth)
Fenwick, Mark - 2016
Seven “Corporate Venturing” Strategies to Foster Innovation tackles the question: What should companies do to accelerate innovation and remain relevant? Or, stated differently: What should companies do to avoid being disrupted by more agile and innovative startups? One answer is corporate...
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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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Do targeted R&D grants towards potential high-growth firms increase employment and demand for high human capital workers?
Daunfeldt, Sven-Olov; Halvarsson, Daniel; Gustavsson … - 2021
Most previous studies on the employment effects of government R&D grants targeting SMEs are characterized by data-, measurement-, and selection problems, making it difficult to construct a relevant control group of firms that did not receive a R&D grant. We investigate the effects on employment...
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The growth and human capital structure of new firms over the business cycle
Brixy, Udo; Murmann, Martin - 2016
Recent research suggests that employment in young firms is more negatively impacted during economic downturns than employment in incumbent firms. This questions the effectiveness of policies that promote entrepreneurship to fight crises. We complement prior research that is mostly based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011567399
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The growth and human capital atructure of new firms over the business cycle
Brixy, Udo; Murmann, Martin - 2016
Recent research suggests that employment in young firms is more negatively impacted during economic downturns than employment in incumbent firms. This questions the effectiveness of policies that promote entrepreneurship to fight crises. We complement prior research that is mostly based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011576100
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The Imprinting of Founders’ Human Capital on Entrepreneurial Venture Growth : Evidence from New Technology-Based Firms
Grilli, Luca; Jensen, Paul H.; Murtinu, Samuele - 2014
This paper tests the presence of an ‘entrepreneurial imprinting effect’ of founders’ human capital on entrepreneurial ventures’ performance. More specifically, we empirically explore the impact of entrepreneurs’ human capital on a firm’s sales growth performance by disentangling the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014159162
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Who's afraid of big bad banks? : bank competition, SME, and industry growth
Inklaar, Robert; Koetter, Michael; Noth, Felix - 2012
use a dataset with approximately 700,000 firm-year observations of German small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) to … the German banking market. Market power generally spurs aggregate SME growth. Banks need to realize sufficient margins to … reduces SME growth in industries that depend heavily on external finance. -- growth decomposition ; reallocation ; banking …
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Financing obstacles and growth : an analysis for euro area non-financial corporations
Coluzzi, Chiara; Ferrando, Annalisa; … - 2009
This paper investigates whether financial obstacles, and, more generally, financial pressure faced by firms, significantly affect firm growth. For this purpose, we use an unbalanced panel of about 1,000,000 observations for around 155,000 non-financial corporations in five euro area countries....
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SMEs, Financial Constraints and Growth
Banerjee, Ryan - 2015
The SME sector is often hailed as an important engine of economic growth. But recent research suggests that young …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013031307
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The growth and decline of small firms in developing countries
Coad, Alexander; Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan - 2008
Empirical work on micro and small firms has focused on developed countries. The little work that exists on developing countries is all too often based on small samples taken from ad hoc questionnaires. The census data we analyze are fairly representative of the structure of small business in...
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