Venture Capital (VC) as an industry exists for more than 50 years. VC has flourished in the US, yet it has only moderately developed other geographical areas despite numerous trials of governments to foster it. Vast research endeavours have been carried out to understand the antecedents,...

This paper addresses the determinants of energy-efficient innovation (EEI), a key ingredient of sustainable growth. Induced innovation view is submitted to a demanding empirical test, and simultaneously complemented with the analysis of alternative EEI drivers, which are based on the stakeholder...

Innovative entrepreneurship plays a key role for the economy development and several policy interventions are usually implemented to support and sustain the phenomenon, at least in numerical terms. However previous studies highlight that is not the number of startups which enhance the economic...

Relying on the institutional and innovation theory, we argue that the institutional features of countries are significantly influencing energy-efficient innovation (EEI) activities, a relevant and peculiar type of environmental innovation. An analysis of a cross-sectional sample of more than...

Relying on the institutional theory, a conceptual framework is developed, which hypothesises that institutional features are creating an environment that significantly influences energy-efficient innovation (EEI) activities at a firm level. Economic, regulatory and social features are argued to...

We use an inductive approach to understand what types of founders’ human capital, at individual and team levels, are necessary to recognize and exploit entrepreneurial opportunities. A sample of 195 founders who teamed up in the nascent phases of Cleantech and Interned-based sectors is...

This paper builds a conceptual framework of business incubation models in institutionally void environments, a relevant yet understudied topic in the extant literature. On the basis of case studies drawn from a sample of business incubators in Egypt and grounding on the resource dependence...

We test whether born-to-be-green represents a signal toward potential venture capital (VC) investors on a sample of Italian, independent, unlisted, high-tech entrepreneurial firms. We employ several identification strategies by controlling for the major potential signals, and the alleged...