This study surveys the current state of affairs in Poland with regard to the development of knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship (KIE), or new firm creation in industries considered to be science-based or to use research and development (R&D) intensively. We place KIE in Poland in the larger...

Entrepreneurship has been characterised as one of the most intriguing but equally elusive concepts in economics. This critical review first surveys its major intellectual roots and then proposes a modular concept of entrepreneurship that preserves its essentially distinctive behavioural,...

Proposing a novel research design for firm-level impact studies, I investigate the effects of venture capital financing on corporate performance by applying a two-stage propensity score matching on Austrian micro-data. Controlling for differences in industry, location, legal status, size, age,...

This paper investigates the variation in entrepreneurship across cities of the Commonwealth of Independent States during 1995-2008, utilising a unique dataset and employing the System Generalised Method of Moments technique. Our findings suggest that banking reform facilitates entrepreneurship,...

Diese Studie untersucht das Ausmaß, d.h. die quantitative Bedeutung, von Privatinvestorenaktivitäten bei jungen Unternehmen in Nordrhein‐Westfalen und zieht auch Vergleiche zur Situation in Deutschland insgesamt. Repräsentativ für die bis mindestens Ende 2018 noch am Markt aktiven...

Diese Studie untersucht das Ausmaß, d.h. die quantitative Bedeutung, von Privatinvestorenaktivitäten bei jungen Unternehmen. Repräsentativ für die bis mindestens Ende 2018 noch am Markt aktiven Gründungen der Jahrgänge 2015 bis 2018 wird das Engagement von Privatinvestoren, ob nur...

Die Branche Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien (IKT), bestehend aus den Teilbranchen IKT-Hardware und IKT-Dienstleister (u.a. Software), ist der zentrale Treiber der digitalen Transformation. Ihre Entwicklung, auch im Vergleich zu anderen Branchen, steht im Mittelpunkt dieses...

We take a detailed look at the current InsurTech landscape from the angle of the academic management literature. Our main goals are to establish a common understanding of key concepts, to facilitate the navigation of this rapidly evolving sector, and to provide an intuitive toolkit for an...

Venture capital (VC) and growth are examined both empirically and theoretically. Empirically, VC-backed startups have higher early growth rates and initial patent quality than non-VC-backed ones. VC backing increases a startup's likelihood of reaching the right tails of the firm size and...