Augusto Rocha

TL;DR: As COVID-19 spreads across the globe, a common public policy response has been to enforce the temporary closure of non-essential business activity as mentioned in this paper. In some countries, governments have underwritten...

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined Crunchbase real-time data examining entrepreneurial finance investments in China during unfolding Covid-19 crisis and found early-stage seed investments falling the steepest, suggesting nascent start-ups are those most heavily affected by the crisis.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the manner in which the current COVID-19 crisis is affecting key sources of entrepreneurial finance in the United Kingdom and posit that the unique relational nature of ent...

TL;DR: The paper demonstrates that the analysis of conversations and conversational spaces is an important mechanism for exploring and mapping the relational connectivity within EEs, and provides policy makers with vital strategic policy intelligence to help better inform public policy frameworks and associated interventions.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors proposed a data-driven methodological framework for examining entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs) by extracting real-time data extracted from an event-based social media platform, in combination with social network analysis and qualitative interview data, to assess the relational connectivity within EEs by capturing entrepreneurial "conversations".