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...

We use an inductive approach to understand what types of founders’ human capital, at individual and team levels, are necessary to recognize and exploit entrepreneurial opportunities. A sample of 195 founders who teamed up in the nascent phases of Cleantech and Interned-based sectors is...

We test whether born-to-be-green represents a signal toward potential venture capital (VC) investors on a sample of Italian, independent, unlisted, high-tech entrepreneurial firms. We employ several identification strategies by controlling for the major potential signals, and the alleged...

This paper builds a conceptual framework of business incubation models in institutionally void environments, a relevant yet understudied topic in the extant literature. On the basis of case studies drawn from a sample of business incubators in Egypt and grounding on the resource dependence...