Luca Grilli

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze empirically the relation between the growth of new technology-based firms and the human capital of founders, with the aim of teasing out the "wealth" and "capability" effects of human capital.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors jointly analyzed the effects of the human capital of founders and access to venture capital (VC) financing on the growth of 439 Italian new technology-based firms.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors derive an empirical model that aims at highlighting the inducements and obstacles that new technology-based firms face in alliance formation according to firm-specific characteristics and the nature of the alliance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider a 10-year longitudinal data set for 538 Italian NTBFs, most of which are privately held, and estimate Gibrat-law-type dynamic panel-data models augmented with time-varying variables that capture the VC status of firms.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the determinants of the start-up size of new technology-based firms, focusing on the characteristics of founders, notably their human capital, and found that the specific component of human capital associated with industry-specific professional knowledge and managerial and entrepreneurial experiences had a greater positive impact on the initial firm size than the generic component, proxied by education and general (i.e., non-industry-specific) working experience.