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Financing high-potential entrepreneurship : government should create an enabling environment-for entrepreneurs and investors-rather than try to pick "winners"

Nanda, Ramana - 2016

Entrepreneurship is essential to job creation and to productivity growth and therefore is an important matter for …

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Governance in entrepreneurial ecosystems : venture capitalists vs. technology parks

Cumming, Douglas J.; Werth, Jochen; Zhang, Yelin - 2016

We argue two alternative routes that lead entrepreneurial start-ups to acquisition outcomes instead of liquidation. On one hand, acquisitions can come about through the control route with external financers such as venture capitalists (VCs). VCs take control through their board seats along with...

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Entrepreneurial Litigation and Venture Capital Finance

Cumming, Douglas J. - 2012

This paper empirically examines the impact of entrepreneurial firm plaintiff litigation on the ability of entrepreneurial firms to obtain venture capital (VC), and the subsequent effect on VC exit outcomes. This empirical context is important, as both the costs of litigation and potential...

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Fostering entrepreneurial investment decision in medical technology ventures in a changing business environment

Keppler, Sonja Bettina; Olaru, Marieta; Marin, Georgiana - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 17 (2015) 38, pp. 390-407

This paper presents the results obtained from a survey among public and private venture capitalists from countries which attract a large amount of venture capital investment: Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Israel. The objective is to investigate venture capitalists’ investment criteria for...

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Entrepreneurial Litigation and Venture Capital Finance

Cumming, Douglas J. - 2016

This paper empirically examines the interaction between entrepreneurial plaintiff firm litigation and venture capital (VC). The data indicate that, relative to non-plaintiffs, firms that litigate prior to [after] obtaining VC (1) receive financing from less [more] reputable venture capitalists...

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Founder personality and start-up subsidies

Chapman, Gary; Hottenrott, Hanna - 2023

Start-up subsidies play an important role in supporting start-up innovation and performance. However, what characteristics help and hinder start-ups to seek start-up subsidies remains unclear. We study whether and how founder personality, as captured by the big five personality traits and...

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Public subsidies and the sources of venture capital

Berger, Marius; Hottenrott, Hanna - 2020

Research suggests that public subsidies for newly founded firms have a positive effect on follow-on financing, in particular, Venture Capital (VC). This study differentiates between Government VC, Independent VC, Corporate VC, and Business Angels and shows that public subsidies are not relevant...

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Creativity as an integral element of social capital and its role for economic performance

Westlund, Hans; Andersson, Martin; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

influence on each other. We regard creativity as one of the sources of entrepreneurship and innovation (although creativity also … and values being distributed in them, social capital can promote entrepreneurship and innovation and thus economic growth …, but social capital can have an inhibiting effect on entrepreneurship and innovation. Social capital can contribute to …

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How much should an investor trust the startup entrepreneur? : a network model

Klabunde, Anna - 2013

Trust is an important determinant of start-up financing. In a simple agentbased model it is determined what the best trusting strategy is for a collective of investors and whether it is rational for an individual investor to deviate from this collective optimum. Trust depends on a measure of...

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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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