This paper investigates the effect of compensation of corporate personnel on their investment in new technologies. To that end, we focus on a specific corporate activity, namely Corporate Venture Capital (CVC), describing minority equity investment by established firms in entrepreneurial...

Crowdfunding platforms have exhibited explosive growth over the past decade. In this paper, we map out what we know about crowdfunding, and chart directions for future work. We argue the crowdfunding literature simultaneously experiences the ‘problem of riches' and the ‘dearth of evidence'....

How do potentially optimistic entrepreneurs attract prospective investors? We investigate an entrepreneur's decision to pursue either disclosure - where investors inspect the invention - or a contingent payment scheme (CPS) offer (e.g., salary deferral, royalty-based license) - where an...