Venture capital's role in financing innovation: What we know and how much we still need to learn

J Lerner, R Nanda - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2020 - aeaweb.org
Venture capital is associated with some of the most high-growth and influential firms in the
world. Academics and practitioners have effectively articulated the strengths of the venture …

The city as innovation machine

R Florida, P Adler, C Mellander - Transitions in regional economic …, 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
The city as innovation machine. Regional Studies. This paper puts cities and urban regions
at the very centre of the processes of innovation and entrepreneurship. It combines the …

Spatial features of entrepreneurial ecosystems

B Fischer, D Meissner, N Vonortas… - Journal of Business …, 2022 - Elsevier
Growing importance has been attached to the concept of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (EE)
as productive structures that encompass complex sets of interaction driving economic …

What is a startup firm? A methodological and epistemological investigation into research objects in economic geography

D Cockayne - Geoforum, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper is an inquiry into the process of defining the parameters of economic geography
research from both a methodological and epistemological point of view. I ask what it means …

Smart cities and the citizen-driven internet of things: A qualitative inquiry into an emerging smart city

RKR Kummitha, N Crutzen - Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper builds on institutional theory to understand the role that the institutional
environment plays in emerging economies which encourage citizens to create Internet of …

Beyond education: The role of research universities in innovation ecosystems

PR Schaeffer, B Fischer, S Queiroz - Форсайт, 2018 - cyberleninka.ru
Universities are increasingly perceived as agents involved in regional development. It is
now recognized that academic contributions to the socioeconomic environment go well …

Fintech urbanism in the startup capital of Africa

A Pollio, LR Cirolia - Journal of Cultural Economy, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
From innovations in mobile money to bookkeeping devices, the burgeoning of financial-
technologies (fintech) in the Global South has been critiqued by scholars concerned with …

The rise of urban tech: how innovations for cities come from cities

P Adler, R Florida - Regional Studies, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This research investigates the economic geography of urban technology, or 'urban tech',
start-up enterprises. Comprised of ride-hailing, co-living, co-working, smart cities and other …

The start-up state: Governing urbanised capitalism

S Moisio, U Rossi - … and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper assesses the mutating role of the state in today's flourishing technology hubs in
major cities and metropolitan areas across the globe through a comparative lens …

On the location of knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship in developing countries: lessons from São Paulo, Brazil

BB Fischer, S Queiroz, NS Vonortas - Entrepreneurship & Regional …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This article empirically appraises the geographical distribution of knowledge-intensive
entrepreneurship (KIE) in the settings of an emerging economy. We start from the typical …