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Entrepreneurs' human capital and the start-up size of new technology-based firms
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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.About:
This article is published in International Journal of Industrial Organization.The article was published on 2004-11-01. It has received 270 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Human capital & Empirical research.read more
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Founders' human capital and the growth of new technology-based firms: A competence-based view
Massimo G. Colombo,Luca Grilli +1 more
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.
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Nascent Entrepreneurs and Venture Emergence: Opportunity Confidence, Human Capital, and Early Planning
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the role of human capital and early planning in the early planning process of a nascent entrepreneur and find that entrepreneurial experience has only indirect effects on the emergence of a venture.
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Entrepreneurship and the process of firms’ entry, survival and growth
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the microeconomic entrepreneurial foundations of industrial dynamics (entry and exit) and characterise the founder's ex-ante features in terms of likely ex-post business performance, concluding that entry of new firms is heterogeneous with innovative entrepreneurs being found together with passive followers, over-optimist gamblers and even escapees from unemployment.
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On growth drivers of high-tech start-ups: Exploring the role of founders' human capital and venture capital
Massimo G. Colombo,Luca Grilli +1 more
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.
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In search of complementary assets: The determinants of alliance formation of high-tech start-ups
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.
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