Energy innovation plays a crucial role in the reduction of carbon emissions. In order to design climate and energy policies that promote the development, deployment and diffusion of new energy technologies, policy makers not only require a theoretical understanding of the energy innovation...

<em>The relationship between founders’ work experience and the survival of young hightech start-ups during an industry crisis</em> - This article adds new insights into the relationship between the founders’ human capital and the survival prospects of start-up businesses. The impact of founders’...

This paper aims to shed new light on start-up financing of new technology-based firms (NTBFs) and the existence of credit cons- traints that may negatively affect their activity. For this purpose, we analyze the different sources of start-up financing used by a sample composed of 386 Italian...

This article adds new insights into the relationship between founders' human capital and the survival prospects of startup businesses. The impact of founders' human capital on firm survival is controversial. On one hand, more experienced and skilled individuals are likely to create start-up...

Several studies have highlighted that new technology-based firms (NTBFs) are often financially constrained, with these constraints hindering firms' growth and even threatening their survival. Even though the provision of venture capital (VC) may allow firms to overcome these constraints, VC...

The analysis of the bank sector's ability to efficiently fuel the birth of new Italian business ventures in Internet-related services is studied. In particular, through the specification and the estimate of a series of econometric models, this paper aims at investigating which characteristics of...

In this paper the authors analyse the Italian "IV Conto Energia" for the Photovoltaic in the light of the Ministerial Decree of 05th may 2011. In the first part of the paper the technical aspects of "Conto Energia" are dealt with, highlighting the major changes with respect to the past. The...