Over the past 15 years, accelerators emerged as a popular and distinct new form of
intermediary organization, playing a key role in supporting entrepreneurial and innovation …

The funding landscape for startups has recently changed significantly. Not only have new
funding partners emerged but established funding partners have also changed their …

Research has a long history of discussing what is superior in predicting certain outcomes:
statistical methods or the human brain. This debate has repeatedly been sparked off by the …

Prior research hints at the accelerator as a new generation incubation model. Accelerators
have become an umbrella term for any program providing a service structure of mentorship …

We examine and discuss the seed accelerator phenomenon which has recently received
much attention both in the US and across the globe. While accelerators appear to be …

In this study, we use the open innovation paradigm to analyze the development of an
entrepreneurial support ecosystem. We argue that business accelerators play a critical role …

The accelerator phenomenon has been cited nationally and internationally as a key
contributor to the rate of business startup success. Accelerators select and invite a small …

Accelerators are a recent yet rapidly growing phenomenon within entrepreneurial
ecosystems. The distinctive characteristics exhibited by accelerators, relative to previous …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the context of open innovation
offered by accelerators can affect the successful growth of start-ups. The authors explore …

Accelerator programs are emerging in recent years as a new model of startup assistance.
However, despite the rapid proliferation of such programs, academic literature on the topic is …