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...

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

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...

<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...

Combinare insieme piu' mezzi espressivi e' divenuto sempre pi semplice grazie agli sviluppi dell'informatica. I segnali del mondo che ci circonda sono grandezze analogiche, per poter trattare queste grandezze con un elaboratore elettronico e' necessario dapprima convertirle da analogico in...

In this paper a convergence result for the BBGKY hierarchy to a Boltzmann-like equation, in the case of anelastic collision, is shown. Boltzmann-like equations are often used to model dissipative dynamical systems such as granular media. This convergence result aims to make a contribution...