Entrepreneurship and Start-Ups in the Boston Region: Factors Differentiating High-Growth Ventures from Micro-Ventures

By John H. Friar, Marc H. Meyer. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Urban Studies

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Making sense of entrepreneurial exit strategies: A typology and test (2015, background): “Research indicates that teams are significantly more likely to create growth ventures than individual entrepreneurs (Brush et al., 2001; Feeser and Willard, 1990; Friar and Meyer, 2003; Utterback et al., 1988).”
Entrepreneurial aspirations, motivations, and their drivers (2008, background): “Second, high-growth firms contribute more to economic growth than small, new, firms in general (Mason 1985; Friar and Meyer 2003; Pages et al. 2003; Wong et al. 2005), while most persons involved in new firm formation have no growth aspiration (Wennekers and Thurik 1999; Henrekson 2005).”
High Growth Entrepreneurs, Public Policies and Economic Growth (2007, background): “However, there is mixed evidence on the effect of entrepreneurship in general on economic growth (Audretsch and Fritsch 2002 ; van Stel and Storey 2004) . It has been said that in order to promote economic growth, policy makers should focus on high-growth firms instead of new, often very small, firm”
Funding the story of hybrid ventures: Crowdfunder lending preferences and linguistic hybridity (2017, background): “Microenterprises are very small, independently owned and founded largely to generate income for the owner (Friar and Meyer, 2003).”
The effect of the triple helix system and habitat on regional entrepreneurship: Empirical evidence from the U.S. (2012, unknown): “One of key activities of entrepreneurship centers is to enable close collaboration with industry partners to enhance the center’s activities including business plan competitions, incubation, and mentoring programs, in order to deliver wide-ranging practical knowledge of doing business to potential e”
The Nature of Entrepreneurial Opportunities: Understanding the Process Using the 4I Organizational Learning Framework (2005, background): “It is widely known that entrepreneurial networks perform a critical role of facilitating the creation of new ventures (Elfring & Hulsink, 2003; Flynn & Forman, 2001; Friar & Meyer, 2003). We suggest that interpreting emerges on the basis of the social interactions of the members of entrepreneurial n”
The effect of institutional quality on firm export performance in emerging economies: a contingency model of firm age and size (2013, background): “Third, firms seeking to grow by way of exporting have been found to contribute far more to economic growth than firms in general (Friar and Meyer 2003; Wong et al. 2005).”
High-growth SMEs versus non-high-growth SMEs: a discriminant analysis (2007, background): “2002 ), Austria (Weiss 1998 ), Australia (Wijiwardema and Tibbits 1999 ), UK (Dunne and Hugues 1994 , Storey 1994 ), Finland (Littunen and Tohmo 2003 ), the USA (Evans 1987 , Friar and Meyer 2003 ), Germany (Harhoff et al .”