The topic of entrepreneurial finance involves many issues including but not limited to the risks and returns to being an entrepreneur, financial contracting, business planning, capital gaps and the availability of capital, and market booms and busts. This handbook provides a comprehensive...

Starting a firm with expansive potential is an option for educated and high-skilled workers. This option serves as an insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within a matching model that reducing the start-up costs...

"This book highlights the concepts of technology financing, technology and innovation management, technology investments and commercialization. It relies on three main approaches: National Innovation Systems (NIS), the Triple Helix Model, and Micheal Porter's Diamond. It highlights the main...