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Maneuvering the odds: The dynamics of venture capital decision-making

Marc Gruber

Research Summary: This article investigates venture capital (VC) decision-making, a process that occurs under changing conditions and limited, ambiguous information. We shed new light on the inherent dynamics of this strategic process. One of the key disti ...

WILEY2023

Beyond scientific excellence: International mobility and the entrepreneurial activities of academic scientists

Valentina Tartari, Wolf-Hendrik Peter Uhlbach

As the international mobility of academic scientists is ever increasing, its effects on outcomes beyond research productivity deserve more attention. In this paper, we therefore investigate to what extent academics with different international mobility exp ...

ELSEVIER2022

Essays on the Role of Policy and Venture Financing in Clean Technology Innovation

Matthias David van den Heuvel

This thesis aims to provide novel analyses and data that improve the understanding of the financing of investments in clean technologies. In particular, this thesis explores the role that private and public actors play in supporting young innovative firms. ...

EPFL2022

Getting more from many - A framework of community resourcefulness in new venture creation

Emmanuelle Fauchart Foray, Julia Katharina Binder, Christina Julia Hertel

In this study, we move beyond the predominant focus entrepreneurship researchers have put on the acquisition of financial capital from professional investors by exploring how, and with what effects, entrepreneurs can mobilize all required resources?financi ...

2021

Financing Biomedical Ventures - Myths and Realities

Jeffrey Scott Behrens

Angel funding is an important source of capital for startup ventures (J. Sohl 2019), providing a similar level of capital as institutional venture capital (OECD 2011). But angel funding is challenging to study due to the informal nature of the activity. A ...

EPFL2020

The Identity of Entrepreneurs: Providing Conceptual Clarity and Future Directions

Theidentity of entrepreneurs(IoE) has become a popular concept in entrepreneurship research, for example, to explain entrepreneurial behavior. Yet, despite growing interest in this topic, theoretical and terminological inconsistencies have hampered the dev ...

2021

Creating New Ventures: A Review and Research Agenda

Marc Gruber

Creating new ventures is one of the most central topics to entrepreneurship and is a critical step from which many theories of management, organizational behavior, and strategic management build. Therefore, this review and proposed research agenda are rele ...

SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC2020

Entrepreneurship across Sociocultural Contexts: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives

Shirah Eden Foy

Entrepreneurship is a highly contextualized process. Yet, the vast majority of entrepreneurship research has focused on Western contexts, yielding a skewed picture of global entrepreneurial behavior. Moreover, theories of mainstream psychology explaining t ...

EPFL2020

Necessity entrepreneurship and industry choice in new firm creation

Marc Gruber, Argyro Nikiforou

Research Summary Research on necessity entrepreneurship has generated important insights, yet it views necessity entrepreneurs in developed countries as one encompassing group of unemployed individuals-ignoring that the level of need is not uniform but ins ...

2019

Entrepreneurial advice sources and their antecedents Venture stage, innovativeness and internationalization

Bettina Lynda Bastian, Christopher Tucci

Purpose - Entrepreneurs interact with others and, through this, benefit from access to knowledge, resources and skills that enhance their own entrepreneurial and organizational capabilities. This paper aims to contribute to the literature interested in ide ...

Emerald Group Publishing Ltd2017

Entrepreneurial Behavior: A Reconceptualization and Extension Based on Identity Theory

Marc Gruber

Research summaryEntrepreneurial behavior is core to our understanding of entrepreneurship. Yet, research progress is hindered because most studies adopt a traditional perspective of the construct that is embedded in economic rationality and focused on for- ...

Wiley2017

Signaling and Self-regulation in Venture Capital : Evidence from Investments in the Clean Technology Sector

Giovanni Liotta

This thesis proposes three studies that provide novel empirical evidence on how different types of VCs' characteristics signal the quality of an entrepreneurial venture and influence investment strategies of funds subject to self-regulation. In the first s ...

EPFL2016

What is an Attractive Business Opportunity? An Empirical Study of Opportunity Evaluation Decisions by Technologists, Managers, and Entrepreneurs

Marc Gruber

The subjective belief that an opportunity allows value generation is a key driver of entrepreneurial action. We advance research on opportunity evaluation by investigating how people may diverge in their views of what defines an attractive business opportu ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Launch Hard or Go Home! Predicting the Success of Kickstarter Campaigns

Patrick Thiran, Matthias Grossglauser, Vincent Etter

Crowdfunding websites such as Kickstarter are becoming increasingly popular, allowing project creators to raise hundreds of millions of dollars every year. However, only one out of two Kickstarter campaigns reaches its funding goal and is successful. It is ...

ACM2013

Social Entrepreneurship : Societal Wealth Creation Under Conditions of Near-Knightian Uncertainty

James David Thompson

In this dissertation I examine the emergent phenomenon of social entrepreneurship through the lens of the structure of entrepreneurial payoffs under conditions of near-Knightian uncertainty. Current theory assumes entrepreneurs will respond to a new form o ...

EPFL2012

From Minds to Markets: How Human Capital Endowments Shape Market Opportunity Identification of Technology Start-Ups

Marc Gruber, James David Thompson

The resource-based view suggests that firms' heterogeneous resource endowments are important for explaining interfirm performance differences. To date, however, the literature provides little insight on the factors that shape the identification of markets ...

Sage Publications Inc2012

Can Successful Founders Hold on to Their Seats after Going Public? The Impact of Venture Capitalists on Founder Turnover

Anu Wadhwa

In this study, we explore the impact of venture capitalist involvement on the relationship between a new venture's pre-IPO performance and the subsequent likelihood of founder turnover. Using new venture perspectives, and the life cycle and agency theories ...

2008

Uncovering the value of planning in new venture creation: A process and contingency perspective

Marc Gruber

Researchers are engaged in a major debate on the value of business planning in new venture creation. This study suggests a potential resolution by applying a process and contingency perspective. The results indicate that planning is beneficial, yet plannin ...

2007

New ventures based on open innovation – an empirical analysis of start-up firms in embedded Linux

Marc Gruber

An important and intriguing aspect of e-entrepreneurship is the formation of new ventures in the domain of open source software (OSS). Previous research on these ventures has primarily looked at the design of business models. The purpose of this paper is t ...

2006

Knowledge Creation Through External Venturing: Evidence from the Telecommunications Equipment Manufacturing Industry

Anu Wadhwa

Investment in entrepreneurial ventures has gained recent popularity as a means for established firms to learn about new technologies and markets. However, the link between such corporate venture capital (CVC) investments and innovation outcomes has not bee ...

2006

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