RICAFE2 First Conference ""Regional Comparative Advantage and Knowledge-Based Entrepreneurship”

Some of the topics: - The choice between alternative sources of financing for innovative firms and their impact on strategic decision in entrepreneurial firms; - The determinants of knowledge-based entrepreneurship; - Venture capital, its contribution to the knowledge-based economy; - Economics of intellectual property rights and its implications for knowledge-based entrepreneurship. - The role and design of financial contracts and of the choice of organizational form in fostering knowledge-based entrepreneurship; - Effects of regulation on venture capital investment; - Impact of corporate governance mechanisms on the performance of entrepreneurial firm; - The contribution of knowledge-based entrepreneurship to regional comparative advantage.