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The Locus of Innovation in Small and Medium-Sized Firms : The Importance of Social Capital and Networking in Innovative Entrepreneurship

Hulsink, Willem - 2013

Social networks matter in the innovation processes of young and small firms, since lsquo;innovation does not exist in a … vacuum (Van De Ven, 1986: 601).' The contacts a firm has could both generate advantages for further innovation and growth … to either the internal sources or the external contacts to trigger innovation. And when a conclusive study has been …

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Too Talented to Innovate? Dynamic Entrepreneurial Reputation, Project Selection and Welfare

Shamir, Noam - 2017

This paper integrates entrepreneurial reputation into a multi-period model which explores the financing and execution of heterogeneous projects under asymmetric information. We study a model where reputation can be acquired following a history of successful execution but may also be inferred...

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Knowledge spillovers and absorptive capacity - institutional evidence from the 'German Mittelstand'

Proeger, Till - 2017

Recent extensions to the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship (KSTE) show that the successful commercialization of new knowledge by incumbents depends on their absorptive capacities. For policy-makers focusing on increasing incumbents' innovative performance, the systematic reduction...

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The selective nature of innovator networks : from the nascent to the early growth phase of the organizational life cycle

Cantner, Uwe; Wolf, Tina - 2016

Earlier studies have shown that entrepreneurs play a key role in shaping regional development. Innovator networks where these entrepreneurs are members of have been identified as one among many critical factors for their firms' success. This paper intents to go one step further and analyses in...

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Digitization and knowledge spillover effectiveness : evidence from the "German Mittelstand"

Proeger, Till; Runst, Petrik - 2019

a federal innovation program, structural drivers, firm clusters and domain-specific knowledge filters for digitization …

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Entrepreneurial Choice : Restoring a Relevant Antitrust Policy

Grimes, Warren S. - 2018

Current antitrust orthodoxy focuses on short term price/output factors. This increasingly criticized model does not adequately protect competition in industries in which individuals and small firms thrive. Small entrepreneurs may be efficient for a variety of reasons, including the incentives...

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Virtual Teams : A New Opportunity to Develop a Business

Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Abdul Rashid, … - 2013

Virtual teams give many advantages to organizations, including increased knowledge sharing and improve organizational performance. Virtual teams have altered the expectations and boundaries of knowledge worker’s interactions and make a new opportunity to develop the business. In this paper, we...

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Investor Base Disclosure and Entrepreneurial Success : Evidence from Crowdfunding

Bai, John (Jianqiu); Chen, Ting; Martin, Xiumin; Wan, Chi - 2022

We employ a sharp regression discontinuity design to identify the causal effects of investor base disclosure on funding success and post-funding outcomes. Starting from February 2016, Kickstarter discloses backer statistics including geographic locations and previous funding experience of the...

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Global Recession to Global Recovery : Epoch Strategies for Marketing, Family Business and Entrepreneurship

Chugan, Pawan K.; Pingle, Sameer S. - 2012

Global Recession to Global Recovery: It is well known fact that all good things, as also bad things, come to an end and business cycles pass through good and bad economic times. Economically 2010 was a year of transition from economic recession to recovery. Economies were improving in some...

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Trademarks in Entrepreneurial Finance

Chemmanur, Thomas J. - 2020

We analyze the role of trademarks in entrepreneurial finance, hypothesizing that trademarks play two important roles: a “protective” role, leading to better product market performance; and an “informational” role, signaling higher firm quality to investors. We develop testable hypotheses...

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