Toward the Emergence of Entrepreneurial Opportunities: Organizing Early-Phase New Venture Creation Support Systems

Regional Opportunities and Policy Initiatives for New Venture Creation

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Financing the Entrepreneurial Venture

This paper is about …nancial contracting choices for the entrepreneur. In an incomplete contracts model, the entrepreneur can design contracts contingent on three possible control right allocations: entrepreneur-control, investor-control, and joint control, with each allocation inducing di¤erent e¤ort levels by both the entrepreneur and the investor. Four types of contract emerge as potentially...

Entrepreneurial Team Dynamics and New Venture Creation Process in Digital Entrepreneurial Teams: An Exploratory Study Within a Startup Incubator

New venture creation plays a significant role in the today’s economy because it accounts for a considerable portion of new product innovations. Despite many success stories, many new ventures fail before they have fulfilled their greatest potential. Overriding the myth of the “lonely hero entrepreneur” and shifting attention to the “entrepreneurial team”, this research attempts to explore sever...

Building Entrepreneurial Tie Portfolios through Strategic Homophily: the Role of Narrative Identity Work in Venture Creation and Early Growth

The evolution of entrepreneurial competencies: A longitudinal study of university spin-off venture emergence

This paper aims to better understand the development of entrepreneurial competencies to create new ventures within the non-commercial academic environment. We build upon the evolutionary perspective considering where resources come from to help define these competencies and explain their paths of development. The study follows the creation and early growth of four university spin-offs within th...