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Incubateur d'entreprises
Publications associées (4)
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. ...
EPFL2022Financing Biomedical Ventures - Myths and Realities
Angel funding is an important source of capital for startup ventures (J. Sohl 2019), providing a similar level of capital as institutional venture capital (OECD 2011). But angel funding is challenging to study due to the informal nature of the activity. A ...
EPFL2020Social Entrepreneurship
In this dissertation I examine the emergent phenomenon of social entrepreneurship through the lens of the structure of entrepreneurial payoffs under conditions of near-Knightian uncertainty. Current theory assumes entrepreneurs will respond to a new form o ...
EPFL2012Learning from Startups: Corporate Venture Capital and Exploratory Knowledge Creation
Corporate venture capital (CVC), direct minority equity investments made by established companies in privately held startups, has become an important strategic tool for many large companies. In particular, firms often pursue CVC investing as a way to learn ...
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