Analyzing 153 venture-backed and non-venture-backed companies that went public in Italy between 1995 and 2004, we tested two hypotheses about the role of venture capital in developing innovations within firms. The first concerns the relevance of innovation and whether it is present when venture...

There is an emerging consensus among scholars that a unified definition of social entrepreneurship would empower better research and legitimize the entire field. In spite of these benefits, none of the four definitions identified here is clearly superior to the others. Moreover, a unified...

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"In this paper we test two hypotheses concerning the presence of innovation in venture capital investments and the growth of innovative venture backed firms. To examine these hypotheses we considered sample of 37 Italian venture backed firms that went public on the Italian Stock Exchange between...