Research background: Globalization trends are one of the main causes global change in world, and most visible consequences globalization is rapid market growth. In such conditions, focus must be on ensuring competitiveness. One key aspects competitiveness start-ups, which sources innovation offer high value-added products, i.e. fast-growing start-ups. Such companies play an important role promo...

It has been proposed that a key success factor for entrepreneurial start-up companies in dynamic industries is their capacity to continuously adapt their business opportunistically. However, the concept of opportunistic adaptation is in need of further development and clarification in order to make it possible to empirically test its usefulness, something that this far has been done only to a l...

This paper reports a study which provides a series of implications that may be particularly helpful to companies already leveraging ‘big data’ for their businesses or planning to do so. The Data Driven Business Model (DDBM) framework represents a basis for the analysis and clustering of business models. For practitioners the dimensions and various features may provide guidance on possibilities ...

This study focusses on the high growth of Latino-owned businesses (LOBs) in United States during last two decades and constraints these face their start-up development stages. During this period, number LOBs increased faster than owned by other racial ethnic groups. The also addresses following aspects Latino business ownership: 1) main reasons U.S. Latinos decide to become owners; 2) reluctanc...

The paper investigates the relationship between bank interest rate margins and collateral for loans issued to new ventures. The analysis finds a convex U-shaped relationship. The results indicate that while provision of collateral initially reduces bank exposure to risk (through security, more optimal levels of capital and lower moral hazard among entrepreneurs) that beyond a point the positive...

Start-Ups by the Unemployed: Characteristics, Survival and Direct Employment Effects Fostering and supporting start-up businesses by unemployed persons has become an increasingly important issue in many European countries. These new ventures are being supported by various governmental programs. Potential benefits include not only the end of unemployment for the new entrepreneur but also some fu...

n this issue of Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, Xu et al present findings from a search of US patents related to bare-metal coronary stents in an effort to gain insight on how medical device innovation starts and how policies in the United States might help to promote more innovation. 1 Of the 245 patents identified by their search strategy for the years 1984 to 1994, the auth...