After a long period of restructuring and outsourcing, companies are increasingly looking for new growth opportunities. Growth with existing prod-ucts or by expansion in new markets is limited. Therefore, companies are searching for ways to expand their activities in new businesses. A frequently...

We examine the determinants of entreprneurship using data on intergenerational transfers of wealth, education and what we call informal human capital. We are interested in the respective importance of the level of assets which relax liquidity constraints and of an entrepreneurial environment,...

Nachfolgeregelung durch Unternehmenskauf - Werkzeuge für die Bewertungund Finanzierung kleiner und mittelständischer Unternehmen im Rahmen einerexternen Nachfolge - die Themenstellung dieser Arbeit enthält zweiSchwerpunkte aus dem Gesamtprozess der Unternehmensnachfolge durchVerkauf: Die...

Seit einigen Jahren ist im Gefolge von Basel II das Thema Rating in der (wirtschafts-)politischen ebenso wie in der wissenschaftlichen Diskussion. Die Intensität der Auseinandersetzungen variiert dabei zwar im Zeitablauf, aber ganzin den Hintergrund getreten ist die Thematik seit mindestens...

Entrepreneurs' actions and attitudes towards business decisions are fundamental to new ventures. Building on Fauchart and Gruber (2011), which identifies three types of entrepreneurial social identity (Darwinian, communitarian, and missionary), this study analyzes how these identities influence...

Aim of the Entrepreneurship 2020 Action plan was to strengthen entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial spirit in Europe. Women belong to the underrepresented groups owning or founding own businesses and therefore offer unused economic potential. For this reason, women's entrepreneurship...

Startup companies are expected to become the new engines of economic growth through the rise of new innovation- based entrepreneurs. The Penta Helix framework is widely used as a framework to analyse factors related to the development of innovation-based companies. The use of the Penta Helix...

The business incubators are entities that provide support to start-up companies, managing the obstacles faced by entrepreneurs and facilitating the hazardous process of business creation. This article aims to identify the existing views on best practices that can contribute to the achieving of...

The article is focused on the family businesses in the Czech Republic. The main aim is to answer the question of whether the family entrepreneurship can be seen as an instrument of municipality development. First, the term family entrepreneurship based on foreign and domestic sources is defined....

The aim of this study is to provide a wide-ranging view of the benefits and obstacles of cooperation between University Research Centres. To do so, the four dimensions associated with knowledge transfer, choice of partners, culture and financing were considered. A qualitative approach was...