Knowledge Base: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital -- Factors: Secondary Data, Primary Data through a Survey among Investors and Entrepreneurs -- Market Comparison: USA vs. Germany in Terms of Entrepreneurial Fundamentals -- The Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: A New More Holistic Circular...

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...

This work studies the extent to which the investments of young high-tech companies in Europe are supported by public venture capital (PVC) financing. We estimate an investment equation derived from a sales accelerator model, and benchmark PVC to the most well-known category of venture capital:...