which attract a large amount of venture capital investment: Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Israel. The objective is to … investigate venture capitalists’ investment criteria for medical technology ventures in the start-up or expansion phase. Since … existing research evaluated venture capitalists’ general investment criteria, the aim of this study is to provide specific …

Entrepreneurs, creators of new firms, are a rare species. Even in innovation-driven economies, only 1-2% of the work … the medium term through "creative destruction" as entrepreneurs strive for increased productivity. …

Are firms born Global? Because knowledge spillovers that lead to new venture creation are geographically constrained we … believe that firms are born local. It follows that the decision to create sustainable new ventures is independent from the …

In this paper I empirically investigate the early international entrepreneurship of indigenous Chinese firms using data … on 3,948 firms surveyed by the World Bank in 2002-03. I find important differences in the extent and motivation of early … internationalization between indigenous and foreign-invested Chinese firms. Despite having started with internationalization relatively …

We investigate the manifold posed question: To what extent does investment in human and social capital, besides the …