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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"New Ventures"”.
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Unpacking Data-driven Technologies and Resource Mobilization Landscape Shifts in New Ventures
… landscape has undergone significant change. New ventures now are in the presence of low-cost data-driven technologies, novel entrepreneurial support systems, and evolving fundraising landscapes. While these developments have made entrepreneurship more accessible, they have simultaneously …
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Dynamic Entrepreneurial Networks: An Investigation Of Entrepreneurs, New Ventures And Their Networks
Entrepreneurs need resources to organize new venture offerings into marketplace-acceptable forms. Entrepreneurs use others' assistance via networks to obtain these resources. Research indicates that firms face resource dependencies, that likely change over time, where they must respond to those …
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Spinning off new ventures from research institutions outside high tech entrepreneurial areas
In this thesis, I examine how spinning off new ventures from academic institutions works in an environment outside developed high tech clusters and how it affects models of ventures. I examine these questions by studying the case of Belgium. There seems to be two archetypes of spin-off processes …
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The impact of angel investors on founders of new ventures in the medical technology industry
Founders of new ventures in the medical technology (Medtech) industry require capital to establish, sustain, and grow their companies. Most founders must seek some form of external capital to meet these demands; in Medtech, the most well-known and prestigious of these is venture capital (VC). …
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EXAMINING THE "LIABILITIES" OF NEWNESS AND SMALLNESS WITH RESPECT TO THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS: PERCEPTUAL BIASES RELATED TO NEW VENTURES
In this dissertation, I use a two-part study to examine, firstly whether preconceived notions, or perceptual differences, exist about organizational characteristics between firms based on size and age, and secondly what the relative salience of each characteristic is as well as possible …
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Toward a search perspective on entrepreneurship
… examines the learning and searching processes in new ventures. This dissertation includes three essays, each focusing on one specific aspect of a search perspective on entrepreneurship. The first essay focuses on how new ventures learn from performance feedback in their pursuit of survival and …
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An international ambidexterity model to understand new venture internationalization and growth
… the situation is different for international new ventures, which may not have sufficient resources and economies of scale in their domestic countries before starting operations in other countries. After initial internationalization at a young age, international new ventures might choose to go …
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Essays on current topics in employee entrepreneurial behaviors and attitudes
… shows that EO is an im-portant factor for new ventures to overcome barriers to survival and fostering growth, measured by annual sales and employment growth rates. In particular, individual-level EO (IEO) is an important driver of a firm’s EO. The firm’s ability to exploit opportunities …
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A study of criteria and success factors in the private equity and venture capital investment process and a comparison to the South African PE/VC Market
… criteria and factors that are used to evaluate new ventures. The study will look at the investment process carried out by a typical venture capital firm, and the primary focus will be on the initial deal screening and the due diligence processes and the factors and criteria the venture capital …
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The Influence of Institutional Environment on New Venture Performance in Egypt: The Mediating Role of Social ties
… This environment presents various challenges to new ventures. A dynamic analysis of the extant literature shows that the effectiveness of the institutional environment in contributing to business performance is contingent on the entrepreneur’s social ties. Despite the importance of social ties, …
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Entrepreneurial habitus and nudging at multi-generational family firms
… in corporate venturing (CV) as a strategy for renewal and competitive advantage. As part of the venturing process, they provide organisational sponsorship to imbue capital and resources to their new ventures. For this study, I investigated seven parent family firms and their new ventures in order …
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Venture Studios: Analyzing a New Asset in the Venture Ecosystem
… studio model aims to systematically build new ventures by trying to combine the financial resources of a venture capital firm, the expertise of accelerators and incubators, and the drive of startup founders. Acting as “factories that build businesses,” venture studios are companies that …
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Consortia as Technology Innovation Management Vehicles: Toward a Framework for Success in Venture Based Public-Private Partnerships
… for assessment and management of these new consortia is sparsely developed. The specific research questions explored in this research are: (1) What are the major sources of consortia support for innovative technology based new ventures that seem to work? And, (2) What approaches to …
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The paradox of prosperity in China: the interplay among entrepreneurs, government, and venture capitalists at initial public offering
… on a key entrepreneurial event in a life of a new venture, the initial public offering. Each essay investigates the mechanisms through which three key players, namely founders, government, and venture capitalists, influence governance structure and value creation in an emerging market. I have …
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Towards a better understanding of the relationship between speed of internationalization and performance outcomes among young international ventures
… outcomes in the context of young international ventures. We argue that the variables of scope of internationalization, entrepreneurial orientation and degree of internationalization play a moderating role in the relationship between speed of internationalization and performance outcomes of …
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Entrepreneurial Leadership: A Delphi Study of New Venture Success Factors
Over a million new U.S. enterprises are formed each year. Virtually all the country's net new jobs come from these and other new ventures. Yet 60% of new ventures still fail within two years. The purpose of this study was to isolate the most dominant leadership success characteristics of a typical …
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Unpacking Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Health: An Entrepreneurial Process Approach
… benefit regional context in order to sustain the new venture creation activities over time. On the other hand, although entrepreneurial ecosystem literature provides a new perspective to understand regional entrepreneurship in context by shedding light on the structures and building blocks of an …
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Business development, strategic analysis and social responsibility within the water industry : a system dynamics approach
… industry exist in the form of corporate market ventures and governmental initiatives to satisfy municipal needs. The two are infinitely interrelated and with increasing demand, new financing options and heightened regulatory activity they are dynamically shaping the industry's behavior. As 1) …
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Venture capital and innovation in information technology : evaluation of the French public policy
Today, there are hundreds of new ventures in Silicon valley, and on the route 128 in Massachusetts that were created by French people. However, in France, innovation in high-technology has stabilized and did not significantly take off. Aware of this issue, the French government has been undertaking …
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