This study investigates important questions for any emerging high-technology firm
attempting to obtain funding: Does the design of the presentation and the perceived passion …

Technology innovators must pitch their technology and its business value to potential
buyers, partners, and distributors: to make claims that will create interest in the appropriate …

Successfully developed academic inventions have the potential to spawn new technological
domains, form the basis of thriving business ventures, and improve the well-being of society …

Research problem: Entrepreneurial passion has been shown to play an important role in
venture success and, therefore, in investors' funding decisions. However, it is unknown …

There is often considerable anxiety and conflicting advice concerning the benefits of
presenting/being evaluated first. We thus investigate how expert evaluators vary in their …

Purpose: To identify the main rhetorical techniques actually used to secure investors'
support in some of the most successful (most-funded) Web-based crowd funding projects …

The challenge of developing high‐quality ideas as the basis of new goods and services is
an important topic that coincides with companies' rapid development of these products. In …

Academic researchers, including those early in their careers, are under intense pressure to
write research funding applications and obtain external research funding. Yet relatively little …

When they are new to the grant game, even scholars with fine publishing records can
struggle with proposal writing. Many are surprised to find that the writing style that made …

The purpose of this investigation was to identify College of Education (COE) faculty
members' perceptions of motivators and barriers to grant writing at a public university in the …