On growth drivers of high-tech start-ups: Exploring the role of founders' human capital and venture capital

By Massimo G. Colombo, Luca Grilli. 2010

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Young Innovative Companies: The New High-Growth Firms? (2013, background): “A multitude of scholars investigated these firms, defining them as a certain combination of being young and/or active in high-tech sectors (Storey and Tether, 1998; Colombo, 2010; Licht and Nerlinger, 1998; Almus and Nerlinger, 1999).”
Founding team composition and early performance of university—Based spin-off companies (2014, background): “…although entrepreneurial roles and capabilities are widely recognized as key drivers of start-up performance in technology-based sectors (e.g. Colombo and Grilli, 2010; Newbert et al., 2007; Newbert et al., 2008), relatively few studies on USOs focus on the performance of new ventures by…”
To be born is not enough: the key role of innovative start-ups (2016, neutral): “Obviously enough, new technology-based firms (NTBFs; see Acs and Audretsch 1990; Audretsch 1995; Colombo, Delmastro, and Grilli 2004; Colombo and Grilli, 2010) in hightech manufacturing and ICT services play a different role than startups in low-tech manufacturing and traditional services.”
What do we know about entrepreneurial finance and its relationship with growth? (2015, background): “International comparisons of loan rejection rates in 2010 show that in the United Kingdom, these were higher than in Germany, France, Sweden, Italy and Spain but smaller than in The Netherlands and Ireland (Eurostat, 2011).”
Governmental venture capital for innovative young firms (2014, neutral): “…the importance of innovative young firms and of external financing for these firms, the crucial role played by VCs in fostering entrepreneurship is evident and has been documented by numerous studies (e.g. Colombo and Grilli 2010; Chemmanur et al. 2011; Puri and Zarutskie 2012; Croce et al. 2013).”
The Schumpeterian entrepreneur: a review of the empirical evidence on the antecedents, behaviour and consequences of innovative entrepreneurship (2017, positive): “At the firm level, various empirical studies show that VC providers not only select innovative firms but also push these firms towards innovation and commercialization of their products (Colombo and Grilli 2010; Samila and Sorenson 2010). Bertoni, Colombo, and Grilli (2011) explicitly disentangle th”
Financing technology-based small firms in Europe: what do we know? (2012, background): “13 Work by Colombo and Grilli (2009) on a sample of Italian TBSFs provides some evidence that venture capitalists perform mainly a coaching function.”
The role of venture capital in the emerging entrepreneurial finance ecosystem: future threats and opportunities (2019, background): “…literature on the role of private equity investors on the performance of the venture-backed companies (Lerner 1995; Amit, Brander, and Zott 1998; Colombo and Grilli 2010; Croce, Martí, and Murtinu 2013), the starting point of these studies has been the identification of an appropriate…”
Equity Crowdfunding and Governance: Toward an Integrative Model and Research Agenda (2019, positive): “knowledge and experiences of entrepreneurs are one of the main reasons why professional external equity investors often spend significant effort and time on their so-called ̳coach‘ function (Colombo and Grilli, 2010; Sapienza et al., 1996).”
Human resources for Big Data professions: A systematic classification of job roles and required skill sets (2017, background): “…have proven the crucial role of human capital in the success of companies, especially those characterized by a high degree of technology intensity ( Colombo & Grilli, 2010; Delgado-Verde, Martín-De Castro, & Amores-Salvadó, 2016; Morales-Alonso, Pablo-Lerchundi, & Núez-Del-Río, 2016; Saenz,…”
Institutional investors and post-ICO performance: an empirical analysis of investor returns in initial coin offerings (ICOs) (2020, positive): “However, the importance of selection and treatment effects is not uniform; studies in the European context generally attribute performance after institutional investments to a treatment effect, while a selection effect seems to be absent (e.g., Bertoni et al., 2011; Colombo and Grilli, 2010).”
Funding the growth of UK technology-based small firms since the financial crash: are there breakages in the finance escalator? (2013, background): “…investment from business angels or VC funds would improve a business’s chances of obtaining bank debt finance, one of the benefits of angel and VC involvement being that it can reduce information asymmetries, thereby facilitating access to other forms of capital (Colombo and Grilli 2010).”
“To have and have not”: founders’ human capital and university start-up survival (2013, background): “Such specific human capital is assessed with University Experience, which is coded 1 if at least one member of the founding team has been employed at the university, either as a professor or as a researcher and 0 if not, similarly to Colombo and Grilli (2010).”