Venture Capital (VC) as an industry exists for more than 50 years. VC has flourished in the US, yet it has only moderately developed other geographical areas despite numerous trials of governments to foster it. Vast research endeavours have been carried out to understand the antecedents,...

Innovative entrepreneurship plays a key role for the economy development and several policy interventions are usually implemented to support and sustain the phenomenon, at least in numerical terms. However previous studies highlight that is not the number of startups which enhance the economic...

Relying on the institutional and innovation theory, we argue that the institutional features of countries are significantly influencing energy-efficient innovation (EEI) activities, a relevant and peculiar type of environmental innovation. An analysis of a cross-sectional sample of more than...

This paper addresses the determinants of energy-efficient innovation (EEI), a key ingredient of sustainable growth. Induced innovation view is submitted to a demanding empirical test, and simultaneously complemented with the analysis of alternative EEI drivers, which are based on the stakeholder...