Innovative entrepreneurship plays a key role for the economy development and several policy interventions are usually implemented to support and sustain the phenomenon, at least in numerical terms. However previous studies highlight that is not the number of startups which enhance the economic...

We use an inductive approach to understand what types of founders’ human capital, at individual and team levels, are necessary to recognize and exploit entrepreneurial opportunities. A sample of 195 founders who teamed up in the nascent phases of Cleantech and Interned-based sectors is...

We test whether born-to-be-green represents a signal toward potential venture capital (VC) investors on a sample of Italian, independent, unlisted, high-tech entrepreneurial firms. We employ several identification strategies by controlling for the major potential signals, and the alleged...