The survival of University spin-offs (USOs) has been directly related to their role as product innovators and as technology transfer agents for years. However, the lack of management abilities and support to get financial resources and strategic alliances make their survival more difficult than...

The survival of University spin-offs (USOs) has been directly related to their role as product innovators and as technology transfer agents for years. However, the lack of management abilities and support to get financial resources and strategic alliances make their survival more difficult than...

Our work looks for empirical evidence for the theoretical work proposed in the past. We use cross-country data from 1960 to 2002 to validate those principles. More precisely, our objective is to quantify the extension of life expectancy improvement that can be explained by the ever increasing...

We start by making a brief introduction into the problematic of firms' decision on capital structure. We present a brief literature review on Capital Structure Theories. We hypothesize that firms in their choice of the level of debt are conditioned by complementary financial policy choices,...