In the last decade, the entrepreneurial ecosystem has seen the emergence of a new support infrastructure – the startup accelerator. These programs offer a structured developmental process to novice entrepreneurs and their startups. Although mentoring is a central aspect of most accelerators,...

This article uses an original dataset of 102 countries which uniquely enable us to distinguish between high-tech and low-tech entrepreneurs to examine the dissociative interplay between corruption, democracy, and the two kinds of entrepreneurship. Existing literature has demonstrated that...

This paper investigates the development of an open innovation (OI) ecosystem in Israel by analyzing the evolution of OI activities, processes, functions, and practices in the Israeli entrepreneurial ecosystem from 1993 to 2022. Our findings show a movement from internal patterns of innovation...

The success of YCombinator and the proliferation of startup accelerators across the globe have stimulated significant scholarly work. We join the conversation and ask the following question; are accelerators akin to beer, where quality is mainly a function of the institution of origin (i.e.,...

This study was driven by an initial finding that female founders’ participation rates in Israeli accelerators are significantly higher (15.3%) than their participation rate in the Israeli startup sector (7.4%). Linking accelerators’ design to the known barriers for female entrepreneurship,...

The literature on the effect of religion and religiosity on corruption has failed to distinguish between direct effect and mediated effect and the different roles of two alternative mediation channels, the personal versus the cultural channels. Using a large data set of 102 countries,...

The last decade has seen the development of a new support infrastructure in the entrepreneurial ecosystem: the startup accelerator. Accelerators offer a structured developmental process that includes an educational component, a bundle of networks and intensive mentorship. Despite the central...