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Of Academics and Creative Destruction : Startup Advantage in the Process of Innovation
Kolev, Julian; Haughey, Alexis; Murray, Fiona E. S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
What is the role of startups within the innovation ecosystem? Since 2000, startups have grown in their share of commercializing research from top U.S. universities; however, prior work has little to say on the particular advantages of startup ventures in the innovation process relative to more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362016
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What Happens when Firms Patent? New Evidence from US Economic Census Data
Balasubramanian, Natarajan; Sivadasan, Jagadeesh - 2013
scope as well as with changes in factor intensity. We find somewhat weaker evidence that changes in patenting are positively … total factor productivity is slightly weaker. Together, these results suggest that patenting is indeed associated with real … changes within rms, and in particular that patenting is strongly associated with firm growth through increases in scope. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014026002
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The Effects of COVID-19 on U.S. Small Businesses : Evidence from Owners, Managers, and Employees
Alekseev, Georgij; Amer, Safaa; Gopal, Manasa; Kuchler, … - 2021
We analyze a large-scale survey of owners, managers, and employees of small businesses in the United States to understand the effects of the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic on those businesses. The survey was fielded in late April 2020 among Facebook business page administrators, frequent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315291
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The effects of COVID-19 on U.S. small businesses: evidence from owners, managers, and employees
Alekseev, Georgij; Amer, Safaa; Gopal, Manasa; Kuchler, … - 2020
We analyze a large-scale survey of owners, managers, and employees of small businesses in the United States to understand the effects of the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic on those businesses. The survey was fielded in late April 2020 among Facebook business page administrators, frequent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012291877
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Facing Uncertainty : Small Business Cash Flow Patterns in 25 U.S. Cities
Farrell, Diana - 2019
Observers of the small business sector have argued that cash flow management is an important issue for small businesses and their owners, but existing data sources provide a limited empirical view of the cash flow patterns of individual small firms. We use de-identified transaction data from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863497
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Financial signalling by innovative nascent entrepreneurs
Audretsch, David B.; Bönte, Werner; Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - 2009
External finance is central for nascent entrepreneurs, people in the process of starting new ventures. We argue that nascent entrepreneurs use patents and prototypes in order to signal their ability to appropriate the returns from their innovation as well as the projectś feasibility. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003809914
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What is the US Comparative Advantage in Entrepreneurship? Evidence from Israeli Migration to the United States
Conti, Annamaria - 2019
This paper investigates the underlying sources of the US entrepreneurial ecosystem's comparative advantage by assessing the benefits Israeli technology startups derive from migrating to the US. To address positive sorting into migration we adopt three complementary approaches, which include...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871914
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Financial signaling by innovative nascent entrepreneurs
Audretsch, David B.; Bönte, Werner; Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - 2009
External finance is central for nascent entrepreneurs, people in the process of starting new ventures. We argue that nascent entrepreneurs use patents and prototypes in order to signal their ability to appropriate the returns from their innovation as well as the project’s feasibility. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003836942
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Start-up complexity and the thickness of regional input markets
Dohse, Dirk; Vaona, Andrea - 2013
Although there is a large and rapidly growing literature on the determinants of regional variation in new firm formation, relatively little is known about the interrelation between the characteristics of start-up firms and urban structure. It is only recently that scholars of urban economics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009761961