Publications associées à Beyond scientific excellence: International mobility and the entrepreneurial activities of academic scientists

Creating 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 INC2020

Entrepreneurship across Sociocultural Contexts: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives

Shirah Eden Foy

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 ...

EPFL2020

Necessity entrepreneurship and industry choice in new firm creation

Marc Gruber, Argyro Nikiforou

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 ...

2019

Navigating the validity tradeoffs of entrepreneurship research experiments: A systematic review and best-practice suggestions

Jérémy Binder, Julia Katharina Binder

Experimental methods provide important advantages for advancing academic understanding of entrepreneurship. Yet, the complex and comingled relationships between some of entrepreneurship's key characteristics pose thorny methodological challenges to entrepr ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

From Minds to Markets: How Human Capital Endowments Shape Market Opportunity Identification of Technology Start-Ups

Marc Gruber, James David Thompson

The resource-based view suggests that firms' heterogeneous resource endowments are important for explaining interfirm performance differences. To date, however, the literature provides little insight on the factors that shape the identification of markets ...

Sage Publications Inc2012

Social Entrepreneurship : Societal Wealth Creation Under Conditions of Near-Knightian Uncertainty

James David Thompson

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 ...

EPFL2012

Three Essays on Navigating the Stages in New Venture Creation

Jana Thiel

Starting a new venture is arguably an exciting journey into previously unknown territories. Since entrepreneurs, through their economic activities, are central to social prosperity, academic research has a strong interest to understand who those entreprene ...

EPFL2012

Do firms know the scope of their R&D network? An empirical investigation of network awareness on French survey data

Stéphane Lhuillery

Although research and development (R&D) networks influence the innovation performance of their members, firms may not be fully aware of the scope of their network. In particular, due to cost reasons, they may not be fully informed of their “indirect ties”, ...

EPFL-CDM Working Papers Series2010

Three essays on university-industry technology transfer and the economics of science

Annamaria Conti

In the first chapter of this thesis, coauthored with Patrick Gaulé, we reexamine the widely held belief, known as the "European Paradox", that while European academic institutions are good at producing academic research outputs, they lag behind US academic ...

EPFL2009

New ventures based on open innovation – an empirical analysis of start-up firms in embedded Linux

Marc Gruber

An important and intriguing aspect of e-entrepreneurship is the formation of new ventures in the domain of open source software (OSS). Previous research on these ventures has primarily looked at the design of business models. The purpose of this paper is t ...

2006