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Entrepreneurial culture and start-ups : could a cultural shift in favour of entrepreneurship lead to more innovative start-ups?

Röhl, Klaus-Heiner - 2016

the education system in transferring business knowledge and entrepreneurship. This is followed by a conclusion in which … Kenntnissen sowie Entrepreneurship beleuchtet, bevor im Fazit Empfehlungen zum Ausbau von Gründerkultur und Risikobereitschaft …

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Reassessing the practical and theoretical influence of entrepreneurship through acquisition

Hunt, Richard A.; Fund, Bret - In: Journal of entrepreneurial finance : JEF ; official … 16 (2012) 1, pp. 29-56

This paper presents a long overdue reassessment of entrepreneurship through acquisition (ETA). Traditionally considered … paucity of data related to entrepreneurial acquisitions, the tendency to equate entrepreneurship primarily with new venture … to situate ETA more fruitfully in the domain of entrepreneurship finance, we take issue with the conventional agency …

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Entrepreneurial Management, Corporate Venturing, and Financial Performance

Eliasson, Christian - 2011

Corporate venturing activities can expand a firm's business by creating new products and entering new markets. The literature suggests that entrepreneurial management should have a positive effect on corporate venturing activities and, as a consequence of this, a positive effect on a company's...

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Book Review : Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed and What to Do About it by Josh Lerner, Princeton University...

DeGennaro, Ramon P. - 2010

Governments worldwide spend enormous sums subsidizing and even bailing out troubled firms. These firms are almost always large, mature companies in mature industries. In this book, Josh Lerner asks whether government should instead focus on emerging companies. Perhaps government would do better...

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Entrepreneurial Heuristics : A Comparison between High PI (Pioneering/Innovative) and Low PI Ventures

Manimala, Mathew J. - 2012

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Venture Archetypes and the Entrepreneurial Event : Cross-Cultural Empirical Evidence

Kollmann, Tobias - 2011

This study sheds light on the so-called, "entrepreneurial event," which is of utmost importance within the entrepreneurial process. We develop a framework describing the occurrence of such an event in terms of characteristics of the business opportunity as well as in terms of characteristics of...

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An Entrepreneur's Guide to Understanding the Cost of Venture Capital

Martin, John D. - 2012

Entrepreneurs who deal with a venture capital firm (VC) for the first time often find themselves unprepared for the experience. The financing terms (deal structure), which specify the percentage of the firm's common stock that goes to the VC often require that the entrepreneur forfeit a large...

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Government, Venture Capital and the Growth of European High-Tech Entrepreneurial Firms

Grilli, Luca - 2014

Using a new European Union-sponsored firm-level longitudinal dataset, we assess the impact of government-managed (GVC) and independent venture capital (IVC) funds on the sales and employee growth of European high-tech entrepreneurial firms. Our results show that the main statistically robust and...

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Economic Geography, Venture Capital and Focal Points of Entrepreneurial Activity

Shachmurove, Yochanan - 2009

Economic geography receives limited consideration in the venture capital literature. This study utilizes thirty years of data concerning companies that initially were backed by venture capital. These firms are located in Entrepreneurial Focal Points in the United States, namely: California,...

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What Matters in Venture Capital - Evidence from Entrepreneurs’ Stated Preferences

Bengtsson, Ola - 2009

We study how entrepreneurs evaluate the ability of different U.S. venture capitalists (VCs) to add value to start-up companies. Analyzing a large dataset on entrepreneurs' stated preferences on VCs, we show that entrepreneurs view independent partnership VCs more favorably than other VC types...

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