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rapid changes in science and technology have made the uncertainty a distinctive feature of our environment. the main reason for such changes is technology, and entrepreneurs are the technology creators. in our country, technological entrepreneurship, which in most authorities’ opinion is the key to technological and economic development, has not been explored so far. although nearly a decade ha...

Steven N. Kaplan is Neubauer Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, Chicago, Illinois. Per Strömberg is Professor of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics and Director of the Swedish Institute of Financial Research (SIFR), both in Stockholm, Sweden. Both authors are also Research Associates, National Bureau of Economic Researc...

Corresponding Authors: Ping Chen, e-mail: [email protected]; Tao Hu, e-mail: [email protected] Source of support: This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 81001102, 81101894, 81672421), the Natural Science Foundation of Henan Province (Grant No. 162300410302), the Outstanding Young Talent Research Fund of Zhengzhou University (Grant No. 5199...

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