The treatment of foreign investors has been a contentious topic in U.S. entrepreneurship policy in recent years. This paper examines foreign corporate investments in Silicon Valley from a theoretical and empirical perspective. We model a setting where such funding may allow U.S. entrepreneurs to...

For past three-years unemployment has been growing in Afghanistan, which has caused many socio-economic problems. One of the solution to this problem is private sector development. A lot of attention has been paid toward attraction of investments at large scale from private sector, however,...

After the education and research mission, academic entrepreneurship is the new important mission of the university. The concept of academic entrepreneurship correlates with the commercialization of knowledge. The present study seeks to find the factors affecting academic entrepreneurship. The...

Objective: This research describes and validates how business incubators act as dynamic mechanisms that promote the innovation capacity of companies.Methodology: There are two parts. First, a review of the literature related to entrepreneurship, mainly from reports of organizations focused on...

The distribution of off-cluster firms around Science and Technology Parks (STPs) was determined in 4 cases in the UK. Off-cluster firms sharing the same Standard Industry Classification (SIC) codes as on-cluster firms were mashed onto a map of the UK and ArcGIS was used to establish zones around...

Purpose Seed accelerators (SAs) appear as a more advanced version of business incubators. These for-profit organizations in exchange of equity, help setting new start-ups by providing mentoring and funding during its first months. Due to their emergent nature, the impact and expectations of SAs...