Entrepreneurship & Strategy IG

When capital does not matter in business creation

by Kim Marie Bischoff Have you ever thought about starting your own business? If yes, have you thought about money that you need for the business? Have you maybe even…

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E&S Research Seminar Series – Does Government Fund the Best Entrepreneurial Ventures? The Case of the Small Business Innovation Research Program

Release date: September 2, 2020 Speakers: Supradeep Dutta, Timothy Folta, and Jenna Rodrigues Description: In this seminar, Timothy Folta (University of Connecticut) presented his paper “Does Government Fund the Best…

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E&S Research Seminar Series – Should We Attribute Exceptional Success to Skill or to Luck? Empirical Evidence from Entertainment, Innovation, Auto Racing, and Firm Performance

Release date: August 19, 2020 Speakers: Chengwei Liu (ESMT Berlin, Germany) and Henrich Greve (INSEAD) Description: In this session, Chengwei Liu (ESMT Berlin, Germany) presents his paper “Should We Attribute…

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E&S Research Seminar Series – Spanning Two Worlds?: Corporate Accelerators and Corporate Venture Capital in Innovation Portfolios

Release date: August 5, 2020 Speakers: Sheryl Winston Smith (BI Norwegian) and Christopher Tucci (Imperial College London) Descriptions: In this seminar, Sheryl Winston Smith (BI Norwegian) presented her paper “Spanning…

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The Story behind the SEJ Special Issue on “Catalyzing Change and Innovation in Women’s Entrepreneurship”

By Candida Brush Every research effort has a good background story, and here is ours. Last year, we attended the June 2019 Diana International Research Conference at Babson College, Wellesley, Mass.[1] The…

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Do Differences Among Accelerators Explain Differences in the Performance of Member Ventures?

by Chien Sheng Richard Chan, Pankaj C. Patel & Phillip H. Phan Since Y-Combinator was founded in 2005, the business accelerator phenomenon has become a major tool to support innovation,…

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E&S Research Seminar Series – Implications of Priority Access in Markets with Experts: Evidence from Online Marketplace Lending

Release date: July 8, 2020 Speakers: Anparasan Mahalingam (Purdue University) and Gary Dushnitsky (London Business School) Description: In this seminar, Anparasan Mahalingam (Purdue University) presented his paper “Implications of Priority…

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Entrepreneurial Judgment and Strategic Entrepreneurship

For this blog post, we asked Peter G. Klein to reflect on his article “Opportunity discovery, entrepreneurial action, and economic organization” which was published in the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal in…

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Decision Weaving: Entrepreneurs as both “Experiential Learners” and “Master Planners”

by Timothy Ott We often think of entrepreneurial firms in the 21st century as disrupters – agile, fast-moving ventures which can out-maneuver incumbents or upend entire industries. They rapidly experiment,…

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What do Venture Capitalists, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Martin Scorsese Have in Common?

By Cristiano Bellavitis, Joost Rietveld, Igor Filatotchev Have you ever wondered whether Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese should work on yet another movie together? Or why Greylock Partners and Sequoia…

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