The scope of this project was to assess the value-add of Australian incubators and accelerators to the high-growth innovative startups they support, as well as to the local, regional and national innovation ecosystems. This scope includes exploring their impact on the development of...

This study presents our preliminary analysis of the emergence of seed accelerators in Australia. We review the history of this organizational form in context of over 40 years of policy debate about venture capital and innovation. We also provide a critical review of whether accelerators are an...

International business research has long acknowledged the importance of regional factors for foreign direct investment (FDIʺ) by multinational corporations (MNCsʺ). However, significant differences when defining these regions obscure the analysis about how and why regions matter. In response,...

In this paper we examine foreign location choices of the top 100 US multinational corporations (MNCs) in 1980 and 2000. We first ask whether there has been a change in MNC foreign location choice in this two-decade period. Second, we explore the underlying reasons of location change by focusing...

International business (“IB”) research has long acknowledged the importance of supra-national regional factors in building models to explain phenomena such as where multinational corporations (“MNCs”) choose to locate. Yet, criteria for defining regions based on similar factors vary...