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Adoption of digital technologies, business model innovation, and financial and sustainability performance in start-up firms

Autio, Erkko; Chiyachantana, Chiraphol N.; … - 2024

This report investigates the impact of digitalization on firm-level performance using survey data from 681 digital … select digital applications and the digitalization of different aspects of the firm's business models were found to be potent … digitalization variables on performance through their effect on business model experimentation, although the digitalization variables …

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Stock option taxation and venture capital activity : a cross-country comparison

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - 2016

One response to uncertainty and transactions costs in VC-finance is to compensate founders (and other key personnel) with stock options under complex contracts. Entrepreneurs are granted stock options contingent on firm performance, vesting and other criteria. While most countries tax stock...

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Stock option taxation : a missing piece in European innovation policy?

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - 2017

Venture capital has become a dominant form of innovation finance, used by many high-tech startups. Europe lags the U.S. in both VC activity and the creation of successful startups, and has recently been surpassed by China. Few European countries have rates of VC activity commensurable to their...

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Owner-level taxes and business activity

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - 2015

In some classes of models, taxes at the owner level are "neutral" and have no effect on firm activity. However, this tax neutrality is sensitive to assumptions and no longer holds in more complex models. We review recent research that incorporates greater complexity in studying the link between...

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Informal Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies : The Impacts of Starting Up Unregistered on Firm Performance

Williams, Colin - 2016

To advance understanding of the entrepreneurship process in developing economies, this article evaluates whether registered enterprises that initially avoid the cost of registration, and focus their resources on overcoming other liabilities of newness, lay a stronger foundation for subsequent...

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Zero-Tax Firms

van der Geest, Jesse - 2020

We study profitable firms with no tax expenses. We find that the proportion of profitable firms that owe zero taxes (zero-tax firms) has increased substantially over the past 70 years, accounting for almost 15% of listed U.S. firms in recent years. Zero-tax firms thus represent a major group of...

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Venture capital and growth of young high-tech firms in the EU : a systematic review of the empirical evidence

Pantea, Smaranda; Tkacik, Marcel - 2021

This study contributes to the debate on VC-related policies that aim to support the growth of young high-tech firms in the EU. The study provides a systematic review of the results of 22 firm-level studies that estimate causal effects of VC using counterfactual impact evaluation methods and data...

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Characteristics of technological base, pace of technological development, and growth of young technology-based firms

Tischler, Joachim - 2014 - Preprint

Young technology ventures are strongly affected by technological environmental conditions. In the light of opportunity theory, this study focuses on the interaction of a young firm's technological base and the pace of technological development in its field. It distinguishes three technological...

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The impact of digital transformation on entrepreneurial activity : empirical evidence from the European Union

Anton, Sorin Gabriel - In: Journal of business economics and management 25 (2024) 2, pp. 297-314

The paper explores the impact of digital transformation (DT) on new business creation in the case of European Union member states over the period 2015-2020 by employing several econometric techniques such as Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and quantile regression (QR). The results of OLS regression...

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Boosting productivity and preparing for the future of work in Germany

Yashiro, Naomitsu; Lehmann, Stephanie - 2018

This paper reviews policies to strengthen Germany’s productivity growth and prepare for changes in labour markets brought about by new technologies. This paper also discusses how social protection and the bargaining framework should be reformed for the future of work. Germany enjoys a...

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