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Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose : Theory and Lessons on Micro Enterprise Development

Karlan, Dean S. - 2012

Many basic economic theories with perfectly functioning markets do not predict the existence of the vast number of microenterprises readily observed across the world. We put forward a model that illuminates why financial and managerial capital constraints may impede experimentation, and thus...

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Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose : Theory and Lessons on Microenterprise Development

Karlan, Dean S. - 2013

We show how financial and managerial constraints impede experimentation and thus limit learning about the profitability of investments. Imperfect information about one's own type, but willingness to experiment to learn one's type, leads to short-run negative expected returns to investments, with...

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The Impact of Consulting Services on Small and Medium Enterprises : Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Mexico

Bruhn, Miriam - 2012

We test whether managerial human capital has a first order effect on the performance and growth of small enterprises in emerging markets. In a randomized control trial in Puebla, Mexico, we randomly assigned 150 out of 432 small and medium size enterprises to receive subsidized consulting...

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Venture Capital Financing, Patenting, and Long-Run Performance of Private Acquisitions

Fabrizi, Simona - 2010

Our model reconciles seemingly contradictory empirical evidence on venture capital activity. Despite the venture capital-backed companies' superior long-run performance, stock markets react more negatively to their acquisitions than to other private acquisitions. Moreover, venture capital...

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Venture Capitalists, Asymmetric Information, and Ownership in the Innovation Process

Fabrizi, Simona; Lippert, Steffen; Norbäck, Peh; … - 2008

' signaling-driven investment, despite the risk of buying a bad innovation. We nally show at what point the presence of active …

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The Effects of Culture and Structure on Strategic Flexibility During Business Model Innovation

Bock, Adam J; Opsahl, Tore; George, Gerard; Gann, David - 2011

flexibility during business model innovation. While the positive effect of creative culture is confirmed, partner reliance reduces … strategic flexibility during business model innovation. Further, structural change is disaggregated into efforts that either … business model innovation effort moderates the effect of reconfiguration on strategic flexibility. The implications for …

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Venture Capitalists, Asymmetric Information, and Ownership in the Innovation Process

Fabrizi, Simona; Lippert, Steffen; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

' signaling-driven investment, despite the risk of buying a bad innovation. We finally show at what point the presence of active …

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The Scientific Output of a Database on Commercialized Patents

Svensson, Roger - 2020

innovation. The dataset is complemented with indicators of patent quality (patent renewal, forward citations, and patent family …

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The Value of Sustainable Knowledge Transfer Methods for SMEs, Utilizing Socio-Technical Networks and Complex Systems

Nousala, Susu; Jamsai-Whyte, Suthida - 2011

This paper will examine the development of sustainable SME methods for tracking tacit (informal) knowledge transfer as a series of networks of larger complex system. Understanding sustainable systems begins with valuing tacit knowledge networks and their ability to produce connections on...

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Clean Technology Ventures and Innovation

Garnsey, Elizabeth W.; Dee, Nicola J.; Ford, Simon - 2013

innovation by new entrant firms. We apply this model to evidence from a study of problems faced by 73 environmental ventures. We … present supporting evidence from case studies that demonstrate how entrepreneurial innovation is brought about by problem …

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