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Venture Capital : A Catalyst for Innovation and Growth

Greenwood, Jeremy; Han, Pengfei; Sánchez, Juan M. - 2022

financing affects firm innovation and growth. The results highlight the essential role of VC financing for U.S. innovation and …

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Firms, Crowds, and Innovation

Felin, Teppo - 2017

, and innovation” and to provide an introduction to the associated special issue. We specifically discuss how various crowd …-related phenomena and practices — for example, crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, user innovation, and peer production — relate to theories of …, and innovation: (1) the functions of sociality (sociality as extension of rationality, sociality as sensing and signaling …

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Too Talented to Innovate? Dynamic Entrepreneurial Reputation, Project Selection and Welfare

Shamir, Noam - 2017

This paper integrates entrepreneurial reputation into a multi-period model which explores the financing and execution of heterogeneous projects under asymmetric information. We study a model where reputation can be acquired following a history of successful execution but may also be inferred...

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The impact of imitation strategies, managerial and entrepreneurial skills on startups’ entrepreneurial innovation

Tsolakidis, Panagiotis; Mylonas, Naoum; Petridou, Eugenia - In: Economies : open access journal 8 (2020) 4/81, pp. 1-17

of enhanced entrepreneurial innovation. To this end, a literature review was carried out in order to develop a research … framework with factors related to imitation predicting entrepreneurial innovation. Moreover, managerial skills and … entrepreneurial skills were incorporated as predictors of entrepreneurial innovation. In this respect, a structured questionnaire was …

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The old-boy network and the quality of entrepreneurs

Bac, Mehmet; Inci, Eren - 2010

We study a model of network formation and start-up financing with endogenous entrepreneurial type distribution. A hub firm admits members to its network based on signals about entrepreneurs' types. Network membership is observable, which allows lenders to offer different interest rates to...

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The valuation implications of sales growth in start-up ventures

Gavious, Ilanit; Schwartz, Dafna - In: Journal of entrepreneurial finance : JEF ; official … 13 (2008) 2, pp. 1-24

We examine whether and how investors' reliance on financial information is affected by the rate of sales growth of a start-up venture. We find that investors discern between firms by the extent to which their products are adopted by the market. For firms that failed to increase their sales since...

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Financing entrepreneurship and the old-boy network

Inci, Eren; Parker, Simon C. - 2012

We study entrepreneurs' start-up financing from banks and local financiers. An informal network, whose membership cannot be observed by outsiders, conveys the good signals it gets about the hidden types of network entrepreneurs to local financiers, which are then reflected in different loan...

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Banks Versus Venture Capital When the Venture Capitalist Values Private Benefits of Control

Barlo, Mehmet - 2010

If control of their firms allows entrepreneurs to derive private benefits, it also allows other controlling parties. Private benefits are especially relevant for venture capitalists, who typically get considerable control in their portfolio firms, but not for banks, which are passive loan...

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The Role of Accelerator Designs in Mitigating Bounded Rationality in New Ventures

Cohen, Susan - 2018

Using a nested multiple-case study of participating ventures, directors, and mentors of eight of the original U.S. accelerators we explore how accelerators' program designs influence new ventures' ability to access, interpret, and process the external information needed to survive and grow....

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Social Capital and Entrepreneurial Financing Choice

Dudley, Evan - 2020

This paper investigates the influence of social capital on young firms' financing arrangements. Using a sample of U.S. start-ups, I find that social capital, as captured by secular norms and social networks in the entrepreneur's county, increases access to outside financing and reduces reliance...

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