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Essays on the Role of Policy and Venture Financing in Clean Technology Innovation
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. ...
EPFL2022Creating New Ventures: A Review and Research Agenda
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 INC2020Entrepreneurship across Sociocultural Contexts: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives
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 ...
EPFL2020Necessity entrepreneurship and industry choice in new firm creation
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 ...
WILEY2019For Their Own Good and For the Good of Others: Identity Duality in New Venture Evaluation and Investor Decision-Making
Organizing is a managerial process which demands a sense of purpose. When stories about "who we are" and "what we do" are salient and coherent (Voss, Cable & Voss, 2006), organizations can better plan, explain and justify collective action (Whetten & Macke ...
EPFL2018Entrepreneurial advice sources and their antecedents Venture stage, innovativeness and internationalization
Christopher Tucci, Bettina Lynda Bastian
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 Ltd2017Entrepreneurial Behavior: A Reconceptualization and Extension Based on Identity Theory
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- ...
Wiley2017Human-centered Innovation Processes
For more than a decade managers, academics, educators and politicians have indicated that innovation is the key to our future. As a result, we find a plethora of innovation initiatives around the world, from university curricula to the mission statements o ...
EPFL2015Fostering Sustainable Innovation Within Organizations
Over the past years many corporate business leaders have started to shift their strategy from a pure profit seeking one towards a balance in simultaneously striving to achieve economic, environmental and social goals (Elkington 1998; Preuss 2007; Roth 2009 ...
Springer2014External Venturing and Discontinuous Strategic Renewal: An Options Perspective
This study examines the relationship between a firm's venturing activities and its undertaking of strategic renewal. The study was motivated by some important gaps in the corporate entrepreneurship literature on venturing and renewal. The extant literature ...
Wiley-Blackwell2013