Founder's human capital, external investment, and the survival of new high-technology ventures

Research Policy

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1214-1226

  Gimmon, Eli ^a   Levie, Jonathan ^b  

^a TEL HAI COLLEGE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human capital; Investors; Signals; Technology entrepreneurship

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS MANAGEMENT; EXTERNAL INVESTMENTS; HIGH-TECHNOLOGY; HUMAN CAPITALS; INVESTORS; NEW HIGH; RANDOM SAMPLE; SIGNALS; START-UPS; TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP; TECHNOLOGY INCUBATOR;

INVESTMENTS;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 77957223451     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2010.05.017     Document Type: Article

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