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Fostering Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Shark Tank Shouldn\u27t be the Model [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
For the past half century, innovation has driven the economic growth that has made the American economy the envy of the world. For most of this period, venture capitalists provided not only the capital that new innovative companies needed, but also the ...
Krumm, Brian Kingsley
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Two hearts that beat as one: Signals, narratives, and financing (less) novel ventures via equity crowdfunding

open access: yesStrategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Financial resource acquisition is crucial for ventures but hindered by uncertainty. While signaling mitigates this uncertainty, its effectiveness hinges on venture novelty and the narratives used to clarify embedded information. Adopting a configurational lens, we examine the interplay among novelty, signals, and narratives in
Jiahe Wang, Lien Denoo, Joris Knoben
wiley   +1 more source

Thinking and feeling about novelty: How cognition and emotion shape investment in novel ideas

open access: yesStrategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract While prior research on the strategic framing of innovation highlights the cognitive mechanisms underlying novelty evaluation, we know little about the corresponding emotional mechanisms. Drawing on appraisal theory, construal level theory, and the literature on emotions, we theorize two distinct appraisal‐emotion pathways through which the ...
Matthew P. Mount   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Financing Healthcare Services for the Poor [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper was written as part of Shujog Research's Financial Innovation for Poverty Reduction Series. It studies the challenges and gaps in the funding of healthcare provision in Asia, and evaluates several innovative financing solutions that can help ...

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Technology‐Enabled Cross‐Border Entrepreneurship: The Role of Digital Platforms in SME Expansion Through the Lens of Institutional Theory

open access: yesThunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) face significant institutional barriers when expanding across borders, including regulatory constraints, financial accessibility issues, and market entry challenges. Institutional theory provides a useful framework for understanding how external regulative, normative, and cognitive institutional forces
Sharmin Nahar, Muntasir Alam
wiley   +1 more source

Reward-based Crowdfunding on the Polish Market

open access: yesPrace Naukowe Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu, 2020
The conditions for the functioning of enterprises, organizations, communities or even individuals have been changing with each passing year. Crowdfunding can become a way to meet the financial needs of the above-mentioned entities, especially when it may
Angelika Kędzierska-Szczepaniak
doaj  

Investigating SME‐Inclusive Public‐Private AI Innovation Network: Evidence From U.S. Small Business Administration (1991–2023)

open access: yesThunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding innovation policy is pivotal to enhancing national competitiveness for global value chain. This research investigates an SME‐Inclusive public‐private AI innovation network over time in the U.S. context (1991–2023), revealing how a government's demand‐based innovation policy bolsters technological prowess through isomorphism and ...
Jiyoon An
wiley   +1 more source

The Balanced Innovation Model. The case of Crowdfunding platforms. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Purpose – The paper aims to analyze balanced centricity (Gummesson, 2008) as an institutional arrangement (Vargo and Lusch, 2016) fostering the innovation process by taking out the customer from the central positioning to involve other business partners.
Quero-Gervilla, Maria Jose   +1 more
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Fertilization influences overyielding through dominance of species with high specific leaf area in young tree mixtures

open access: yesFunctional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract In the context of anthropogenic eutrophication of the biosphere, understanding the impact of nutrient addition on plant diversity–productivity relationships remains a major challenge.
Dai F. Saito   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do Actions Speak Louder than Words? Sustainability Signals and Claims to Attract Business Angel Financing

open access: yesBritish Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract Research on business angels’ (BAs) investment decisions has largely focused on economic considerations, while the role of sustainability factors remains underexplored. This study examines how BAs respond to entrepreneurs’ sustainability communication.
Julian Bafera   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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