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Start-up subsidies play an important role in supporting start-up innovation and performance. However, what characteristics help and hinder start-ups to seek start-up subsidies remains unclear. We study whether and how founder personality, as captured by the big five personality traits and...
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-specific spatial patterns of employment dynamics, and whether these patterns are conditional upon the general economic climate in a … particular region. To this end, we analyze and compare patterns of employment growth in the knowledge economy and its subsectors …-intensive employment growth. Our results show that with respect to knowledge-intensive employment, both the Randstad and the Rhine …
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This paper adds to the literature of external corporate venturing, especially corporate venture capitals (CVCs) and corporate accelerators (CAs) by providing an overview of the German corporate venturing market and by offering first intriguing findings based on a novel and unique hand-collected...
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Kenntnissen sowie Entrepreneurship beleuchtet, bevor im Fazit Empfehlungen zum Ausbau von Gründerkultur und Risikobereitschaft … the education system in transferring business knowledge and entrepreneurship. This is followed by a conclusion in which …
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the education system in transferring business knowledge and entrepreneurship. This is followed by a conclusion in which … Kenntnissen sowie Entrepreneurship beleuchtet, bevor im Fazit Empfehlungen zum Ausbau von Gründerkultur und Risikobereitschaft …
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Popular theories claim that innovation activities should be located in large cities because of more favorable environmental conditions that are absent in smaller cities or remote and rural areas. Germany provides a clear counterexample to such theories. We argue that a main force behind the...
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This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncer-tainty and therefore rely on patents as signals when trying to assess the prospects of...
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This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncertainty and therefore rely on patents as signals when trying to assess the prospects of...
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In the presence of asymmetric information, economic agents need to communicate their quality to investors and other parties. While much of the literature focuses exclusively on signaling, we develop a conceptual framework that extends this view with elements of the literature on certification....
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Innovative Start-ups sind aus mehreren Gründen durch ein hohes Risiko gekennzeichnet. Venture Capital (VC) ermöglicht es Start-ups, ihre Ideen zu Innovationen zu entwickeln und senkt das Risiko des Scheiterns. Diese Form der Finanzierung ist ein wesentlicher Bestandteil im globalen Wettbewerb....
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