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Almus, Matthias; Nerlinger, Eric A.

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“…Apart from the definition, still not agreed upon among authors, various studies focus on the contribution that NTBFs have made to employment, technological innovation and new technological knowledge [20].…”

Section: New Technology-based Firms Technology Entrepreneurship and mentioning

confidence: 99%

Does Social Innovation Contribute to Sustainability? The Case of Italian Innovative Start-Ups

Piccarozzi

2017

Sustainability

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Start-ups, among other enterprises, play a major role in the development and/or commercialization of new technologies and the development of national economies, given that firms are the innovation locus for an entire society. In Italy, a recent regulatory intervention has focused on start-ups creating a framework where innovative start-ups are defined and regulated. Among innovative start-ups, those with a social vocation are of particular interest, since they are understudied in the literature. Indeed, the aim of this paper is twofold: to analyze the relationship between social innovation and sustainability in the latter businesses, and try to understand how sustainability could be fostered through them. Italian cases of innovative start-ups will be studied through content analysis applied to the Social Impact Assessment Document provided by firms. Results show that the Social Impact Assessment Document provided by innovative start-ups explicitly pays attention to social innovation and sustainability in different ways. However, the document does not show the link between social innovation and sustainability. Nonetheless, going through these documents, the link between social innovation and the three aspects of sustainability (economic, social and environmental) clearly emerge and therefore could be better managed.

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Section: New Technology-based Firms Technology Entrepreneurship and mentioning

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Does Social Innovation Contribute to Sustainability? The Case of Italian Innovative Start-Ups

Piccarozzi

2017

Sustainability

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“…Dans cette étude, on découvre que les entreprises du secteur des services sont caractérisées par des taux de croissance de l'emploi supérieurs à la moyenne. Almus et Nerlinger (1999) et Brüderl, Preisendörfer et Ziegler (1996) confirment également des différences significatives des taux de croissance de l'emploi selon la spécificité des branches. Johnson, Baldwin et Hinchley (1997) trouvent une relation étroite entre la dynamique du développement à l'inté-rieur d'une branche et le taux de croissance d'une entreprise.…”

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Les facteurs de succès des entreprises à croissance rapide en Allemagne

Woywode

Lessat²

2012

ipme

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Cette étude analyse les entreprises d’Allemagne de l’Ouest connaissant une croissance de l’emploi particulièrement importante. Nous désignons comme entreprises à croissance rapide celles qui appartiennent aux 10 % des entreprises ayant la plus forte croissance de l’emploi. Après une discussion théorique sur les déterminants de la croissance d’entreprise, nous développerons une série d’hypothèses dont nous vérifierons l’exactitude de façon empirique à l’aide de deux échantillons d’entreprises. Le premier échantillon comprend environ 11 000 entreprises de l’industrie de transformation (secteur secondaire), de l’industrie du bâtiment, du commerce et de l’industrie des services en général (secteur tertiaire). Les données dont nous disposons proviennent des informations de la plus grande agence allemande de renseignements sur les crédits, CREDITREFORM. Le deuxième échantillon comporte des informations sur environ 4000 entreprises ouest-allemandes de l’industrie de transformation et de l’industrie de services liés à la production. Pour cet échantillon, les informations proviennent d’un sondage écrit. Nos résultats peuvent être résumés ainsi : nous confirmons les résultats d’enquêtes précédentes, qui attestent qu’un petit groupe d’entreprises à croissance rapide apporte une contribution essentielle à la croissance de l’emploi. En moyenne, les petites et les jeunes entreprises appartiennent plus que les grandes entreprises ou celles plus anciennes aux groupes d’entreprises à croissance rapide. En outre, nous découvrons que le secteur d’activité et la forme juridique choisie par l’entreprise influent sur la probabilité pour l’entreprise de faire partie des entreprises à croissance rapide. Les stratégies des entreprises en matière de recherche et développement ou d’exportation, mais aussi les caractéristiques personnelles de l’entrepreneur telles que son âge et son diplôme sont des déterminants majeurs de la forte croissance d’une entreprise.This paper discusses the determinants of high-growth firms in Germany. High-growth firms are defined as the « top ten percent companies» with respect to employment growth and turnover growth. We review the relevant literature concerning firm growth, develop a number of hypotheses, and test these predictions by considering the growth rates of enterprises in two separate samples containing West German firms. The first sample contains approximately 11 000 companies from manufacturing, construction, trade, finance and services. This data set is based on firm level information of a credit rating agency. The firms were tracked over a six-year period. The second sample contains information on 4000 West German firms from manufac-turing and some business services. In this case, firm level information was gath-ered by interviewers and covers a four-year interval. Our results can be summarised as follows. We find that smaller firms have a higher likelihood of being among the « top ten percent companies». Furthermore, we find evidence that the industry affiliation and the legal form adopted by com...

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“…A robust body of research has been done about success and growth factors of new firms (e.g. Barber et al 1989;Audretsch 1995;Audretsch & Mahmood 1995;Gatewood et al 1995;Almus & Nerlinger 1999;van Praag 2003;Kakati 2003). In contrast, little has been done to examine underperformance factors of newly established SMEs.…”

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Business failure factors in Iranian SMEs: Do successful and unsuccessful entrepreneurs have different viewpoints?

Arasti¹,

Zandi²,

Bahmani³

2014

J Glob Entrepr Res

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Small and medium Enterprises (SMEs) play a key role to innovation, employment, and competitive advantage. One of the requirements for growth, creativity as well as entrepreneurship in societies is to study their failure process. The purpose of this survey study was to investigate factors which affect business failure from successful versus unsuccessful entrepreneurs' points of view. Our sample includes 120 entrepreneurs in newly established small businesses who work in Iranian industry sector. Data was gathered through questioners around general themes of "immediate environment", "general environment", "manager/entrepreneur", and "corporate policy". Our findings show a significant difference between successful and unsuccessful entrepreneurs' viewpoints and also prioritize the business failure factors.

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Cited by 342 publications

References 31 publications

Does Social Innovation Contribute to Sustainability? The Case of Italian Innovative Start-Ups

Does Social Innovation Contribute to Sustainability? The Case of Italian Innovative Start-Ups

Les facteurs de succès des entreprises à croissance rapide en Allemagne

Business failure factors in Iranian SMEs: Do successful and unsuccessful entrepreneurs have different viewpoints?

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