environment, government quality and support, education quality and entrepreneurship know-how, innovation environment and support … intensity of nascent entrepreneurs in four Southern European countries (Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece), using Total Early …

environment, government quality and support, education quality and entrepreneurship know-how, innovation environment and support … intensity of nascent entrepreneurs in four Southern European countries (Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece), using Total Early …

/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 experiential and intellectual base of an entrepreneur (i.e., dimensions of his …/her human capital) suggests that it is through experience and through education that an entrepreneur obtains knowledge. Using …

general as well as in technology- and knowledge-intensive subsectors. We compare Germany and Portugal which exhibit, though EU … indicate that the skill composition has different effects on firm entry in the two countries. More specifically, for Portugal …

general as well as in technology- and knowledge-intensive subsectors. We compare Germany and Portugal which exhibit, though EU … indicate that the skill composition has different effects on firm entry in the two countries. More specifically, for Portugal …

knowledge spillovers between similar firms, the latter argues that diversity provides more opportunities for cross … relationship for Germany and Portugal. Both countries, though member states of the European Union, are fairly different from each … considerably. While it turns out that in Portugal firm entries are positively affected by a high concentration of skills, it is the …

opportunities. We link this to an increasing burden of knowledge by documenting a long-term earnings decline by founders, especially … established firms are better positioned to cope with the increasing burden of knowledge, in particular through the design of … knowledge hierarchies, explaining why new firm entry has declined for high-tech, high-opportunity startups …

In what ways does knowledge similarity among co-founders contribute to venture scaleup? This paper addresses this … question by taking account of knowledge domains among early employees and in founders’ social networks. We build a theoretical … framework to predict which knowledge combinations are likely to lead to venture growth at different stages. We test our theory …