Applying real options logic, we build and test a multi-level model that explicates the influence of a country’s intellectual property protection regime on the effect of human and financial capital on growth aspirations. The results suggest that the strength of the intellectual property regime...

In this article, we review current rationales for policy intervention in innovative activities. Focusing particularly on market and system failure rationales, we disentangle related underlying mechanisms for knowledge exploration and exploitation. We provide a novel contribution to the system...

<title/> Past research has largely treated inter-organizational social capital as an exogenously determined asset. In this paper, the authors build and test a model on the effects of the initial conditions for the creation and leveraging of social capital in corporate venture capital v - v portfolio...

<title/> There is an established body of research that has examined the value-added provided by venture capitalists for their portfolio companies. More recent work has started to look at the comparable activities of corporate venture capitalists. However, to date, the value-added provided by these two...

<title>Abstract</title> The purpose of our study is to contribute to an improved understanding of how women business owners finance their businesses and whether usage of financing and bank shopping patterns vary by gender. Our findings reveal more similarities than differences between women and men business...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the existence of cross-level moderating effects between national appropriability conditions, individual level predictors and entrepreneurial growth aspirations. We test a multi-level model that connects the determinants of strategic resource allocation...

This paper looks at how well Finland performs in high growth entrepreneurship and uses data from the Global Entrepreneurship monitor to benchmark Finland against other European countries. It is found that Finland's prevalence rate of high growth entrepreneurial activity lags significantly behind...

Entry into entrepreneurship is a strategic act for individuals who seek an optimal way to exploit their human, social and financial capital. Trade-offs associated with this choice are influenced by institutional conditions. We use signalling theory, employment choice theory and theory on...

The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor model combines insights on the allocation of effort into entrepreneurship at the national (adult working age population) level with literature in the Aus-trian tradition. The model suggests that the relationship between national-level new business ac-tivity...