Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to uncover the strategic nature of formal seed capital in Norway as opposed to equally sized venture capital firms. Design/methodology/approach – As the population of Norwegian seed capital firms is embedded in this study, a differential approach is...

A model of entrepreneurial capital is presented.Extending the idea of intellectual capital, entrepreneurial capital is definedas a multiplicative function of entrepreneurial competence and entrepreneurialcommitment. The relationship between competence and commitment is argued to...