I‐Corps at NIH: Entrepreneurial Training Program Creating Successful Small Businesses

The NIH training grant program. A program in trouble?

Desktop Virtual Reality Applications for Training Personnel of Small Businesses

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in most world economies suffer from a series of intense economic pressures from local, regional and international markets. Although these problems are microeconomic to the small and medium-sized business, they are directly related to macro economic factors, particularly in the case of labor. One of the main pressures small and medium-sized businesses suf...

Implementation of a Worksite Wellness Program Targeting Small Businesses

OBJECTIVE To assess small business adoption and need for a worksite wellness program in a longitudinal study of health risks, productivity, workers' compensation rates, and claims costs. METHODS Health risk assessment data from 6507 employees in 260 companies were examined. Employer and employee data are reported as frequencies, with means and standard deviations reported when applicable. R...

Entrepreneurial Optimism, Credit Availability, and Cost of Financing: Evidence from U.S. Small Businesses

Does entrepreneurial optimism affect the credit availability to small firms and their cost of financing? Using a large sample of U.S. small businesses and a new measure of optimism, we find that higher levels of optimism result in significantly higher leverage. In addition, we find that firms with optimistic entrepreneurs tend to use more short-term debt. We do not find evidence that banks curt...

Formation and Development of Entrepreneurial Teams in Rapid Growth Businesses

Several studies have confirmed that growth ventures are often established and managed by teams rather than by a single person. However, despite the significance of their impact on their firms’ performance, relatively little is known about entrepreneurial (or venture) teams in terms of the processes of assembling and maintaining an effective team. Fourteen top teams were interviewed over the pas...