By serving as a conduit for knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship is the missing link
between investments in new knowledge and economic growth. The knowledge spillover …

This study tests for financial constraints on R&D investment and how they differ from capital
investment. To identify constraints in the access to external capital, we employ a credit rating …

Strong lending relationships between banks and small and medium-sized enterprises
(SMEs) play a key role in the bank-based financial system of Germany. So far, they have …

This paper shows how competition generates reputation-building behavior in repeated
interactions when the product quality observed by consumers is a noisy signal of firms' effort …

The US industrial sector displays heterogeneity among firms on the basis of their size:
smaller firms exhibit a higher profit rate, lower survival probability and difficulty in accessing …

This study examines the relationship between R&D drivers and firm's age, taking into
account the autoregressive nature of innovation. Using a large longitudinal dataset …

This paper examines how firm age can affect a firm's perception of the obstacles (deterring
vs. revealed) that hamper and delay innovation. Using a comprehensive panel of Spanish …

The article tracks potential employees (team members), university scientists (advisors) and
venture capitalists (investors) who participated in a two-day workshop at Stanford University …

We explore the role of government initiatives fostering entrepreneurship—in the form of tax
advantages and government support—in influencing the probability that entrepreneurial …

We investigate the impact of the legal system on whether firms obtain the credit they apply
for or not. Data comprise unique information provided directly by 48,590 firms from 11 …