This paper is a survey of recent empirical work on financial constraints faced by firms. It is
organized as a series of stylized results which mirror what is generally understood about the …

Against a backdrop of increasingly severe environmental problems, green development has
become a primary goal and crucial mode in the global economy's requirements for …

Competencies necessary for entrepreneurial action are investigated. Building on
structuration theory, competencies are approached as an outgrowth of the learning of scripts …

Innovative start-ups are often considered to be a key source of innovation and job creation.
As such they are the subject of several types of supportive public policies. This study …

In this paper, we jointly analyze the effects of the human capital of founders and access to
venture capital (VC) financing on the growth of 439 Italian new technology-based firms …

Recent policy initiatives in the EU aim at supporting so-called young highly innovative
companies (YICs). This article provides empirical evidence from German CIS data on the …

This paper aims to shed new light on start-up financing of new technology-based firms
(NTBFs) and the existence of credit constraints that may negatively affect their activity. For …

Small and medium enterprises are critical for the growth of the economy and entrepreneurs
play an important role. The study aimed to identify the competencies required for Indian …

The literature on innovation systems focuses on the supply side (the creation of technology)
rather than on how innovations are converted into economic activity and growth via the …

This study was created the entrepreneurship ecosystem index (EEI) as an effective tool for
measurement of entrepreneurship ecosystem for 34 selected economies during 2000-2017 …