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Government, Venture Capital and the Growth of European High-Tech Entrepreneurial Firms

Grilli, Luca - 2014

Using a new European Union-sponsored firm-level longitudinal dataset, we assess the impact of government-managed (GVC) and independent venture capital (IVC) funds on the sales and employee growth of European high-tech entrepreneurial firms. Our results show that the main statistically robust and...

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Technological Entrepreneurship in India

Meil, Pamela - 2017

Is the rise of the Indian software industry simply another Asian state-dominated industrial growth story or is India distinctive, an economy where small technology entrepreneurs also find niches for development and can be drivers of innovation? Research has predominantly focused on the large...

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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector

Brown, J. David - 2019

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...

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The Imprinting of Founders’ Human Capital on Entrepreneurial Venture Growth : Evidence from New Technology-Based Firms

Grilli, Luca - 2016

This paper tests the presence of an ‘entrepreneurial imprinting effect' of founders' human capital on entrepreneurial ventures' sales growth performance. More specifically, we disentangle the effect of the stock of human capital possessed at foundation from the potential injections and losses...

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High-Technology Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley

Fairlie, Robert W.; Chatterji, Aaron - 2021

measure of entrepreneurship derived from matching files from the Current Population Survey (CPS) is used to provide the first …. Estimates indicate that hi-tech entrepreneurship rates were lower in Silicon Valley than the rest of the United States during … the period from January 1996 to February 2000. Examining the post-boom period, we find that entrepreneurship rates in …

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Immigration policy levers for U.S. : innovation and startups

Kerr, William R.; Pekkala Kerr, Sari - 2020

Immigrants account for about a quarter of US invention and entrepreneurship despite a policy environment that is not …

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Sources of knowledge used by entrepreneurial firms in the European high-tech sector

Amoroso, Sara; Audretsch, David B.; Link, Albert N. - 2017

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between an entrepreneur's experience and education and his/her reliance on alternative sources of knowledge for exploring new business opportunities. The extant literature that is at the crossroads between sources of knowledge and the...

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Entrepreneurial experimentation : a key function in entrepreneurial systems of innovation

Lindholm, Åsa; Andersson, Martin; Carlsson, Bo - 2017

entrepreneurial experimentation comprises both "technical" and "market" experimentation, and that entrepreneurship must be …

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International entrepreneurship : linking entrepreneurial motivation, orientation and network relationship

Sekliuckiene, Jurgita - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 17 (2015) 38, pp. 327-341

The paper analyses the importance of collaboration and networks in international entrepreneurship by distinguishing … research extends the scope of international entrepreneurship research in emerging CEE countries. …

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Fostering entrepreneurial investment decision in medical technology ventures in a changing business environment

Keppler, Sonja Bettina; Olaru, Marieta; Marin, Georgiana - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 17 (2015) 38, pp. 390-407

This paper presents the results obtained from a survey among public and private venture capitalists from countries which attract a large amount of venture capital investment: Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Israel. The objective is to investigate venture capitalists’ investment criteria for...

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