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Economic Geography, Venture Capital and Focal Points of Entrepreneurial Activity

Shachmurove, Yochanan - 2009

Economic geography receives limited consideration in the venture capital literature. This study utilizes thirty years of data concerning companies that initially were backed by venture capital. These firms are located in Entrepreneurial Focal Points in the United States, namely: California,...

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What Matters in Venture Capital - Evidence from Entrepreneurs’ Stated Preferences

Bengtsson, Ola - 2009

We study how entrepreneurs evaluate the ability of different U.S. venture capitalists (VCs) to add value to start-up companies. Analyzing a large dataset on entrepreneurs' stated preferences on VCs, we show that entrepreneurs view independent partnership VCs more favorably than other VC types...

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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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Book Review : Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed and What to Do About it by Josh Lerner, Princeton University...

DeGennaro, Ramon P. - 2010

Governments worldwide spend enormous sums subsidizing and even bailing out troubled firms. These firms are almost always large, mature companies in mature industries. In this book, Josh Lerner asks whether government should instead focus on emerging companies. Perhaps government would do better...

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Entrepreneurial Hiring Strategies in Standalone and Portfolio Ventures

Hietaniemi, Liinus; Santamaria, Simone; Kacperczyk, … - 2021

, making the optimal hiring strategy unclear. We argue that such strategy depends on the type of entrepreneurship pursued …: whether entrepreneurship entails founding a standalone venture or a portfolio of ventures. We predict that standalone ventures …

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Formal sources of finance boost innovation : do immigrants benefit as much as natives?

Ashourizadeh, Shayegheh; Saeedikiya, Mehrzad; Aeeni, Zeynab - In: Entrepreneurial business and economics review : EBER 10 (2022) 2, pp. 41-59

Entrepreneurship Monitor in 2015 were analysed using the hierarchical linear modelling (HLM) technique. Findings: Results indicated …

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Measuring Venture Emergence in Entrepreneurship Research

Giones, Ferran; Fox, Paul; Miralles, Francesc - 2021

This paper explores how venture emergence has been defined and measured in entrepreneurship research. It identifies the … venture emergence in entrepreneurship research share a common theoretical grounding that reduces the diversity of instruments … well as research gaps are offered as a guide for entrepreneurship researchers …

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Exposed : Venture Capital, Competitor Ties, and Entrepreneurial Innovation

Cox Pahnke, Emily - 2015

This study investigates the impact of early relationships on innovation at entrepreneurial firms. Prior research has largely focused on the benefits of network ties, documenting the many advantages that accrue to firms embedded in a rich network of inter-organizational relationships. In...

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Private Equity and Entrepreneurial Governance : Time for a Balanced View

Klein, Peter G. - 2013

benefits and costs that vary according to circumstances. Building on the “judgment-based” view of entrepreneurship, we note …

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Entrepreneurial Heuristics : A Comparison between High PI (Pioneering/Innovative) and Low PI Ventures

Manimala, Mathew J. - 2012

Entrepreneurship research ... …

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