Venture Capital as a Catalyst to Commercialization

By Sampsa Samila, Olav Sorenson. 2010

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Incumbent Adaptation to Technological Change: The Past, Present, and Future of Research on Heterogeneous Incumbent Response (2018, unknown): “Enforcement of noncompete clauses—which constrains employee mobility—reduces entrepreneurship and innovation (Samila & Sorenson, 2010).”
The Schumpeterian entrepreneur: a review of the empirical evidence on the antecedents, behaviour and consequences of innovative entrepreneurship (2017, unknown): “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).”
Determinants of Cross-Border Venture Capital Investments in Emerging and Developed Economies: The Effects of Relational and Institutional Trust (2015, unknown): “It has been established by extant research that VCs not only promote innovative activities (Kortum and Lerner 2000; Samila and Sorenson 2010, 2011), but they also provide additional value-added support to enable innovative products or services to be rapidly brought to market (Black and Gilson 1998;…”
Who Takes You to the Dance? How Partners’ Institutional Logics Influence Innovation in Young Firms (2015, result): “In alternate tests, we included metropolitan statistical area (MSA) fixed effects (a dummy variable that equals one if the young firm is located in a particular MSA and zero otherwise) to capture differences in local resource availability (Samila and Sorenson, 2010), and our results held.”
A review of the ecosystem concept — Towards coherent ecosystem design (2017, background): “Two studies concentrated on venture capital (Samila and Sorenson, 2010) and angels: private investors (Zacharakis et al.”
Banking Deregulation and Innovation (2013, background): “Second, innovation is a fountainhead of economic growth and a significant body of empirical evidence shows that young, private firms are key drivers of path-breaking innovation (e.g., Akcigit and Kerr, 2011; Acs and Audretsch, 1987, 1988, 1993; Zucker, Darby and Brewer, 1998; Kortum and Lerner, 2000”
Institutions and Venture Capital (2013, unknown): “As Samila and Sorenson (2010) showed for a sample of metropolitan areas in the United States, the correlation between research grants to universities and the rates of patenting and firm formation in a region strengthens when the venture capital firms are more active in that region.”
The emerging role of university spin-off companies in developing regional entrepreneurial university ecosystems: The case of Andalusia (2019, background): “The VC investors not only provide financing, but also mentoring, expertise, and industry contacts improving the chances of the firm to succeed, and are also seen as catalysts for commercialisation because they help to develop the pool of entrepreneurial talent in an area (Samila and Sorenson, 2010).”