Fostering digital entrepreneurship from startup to scaleup: The role of venture capital funds and angel groups

Cavallo, Angelo; Ghezzi, Antonio; Dell’Era, Claudio; Pellizzoni, Elena

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2019.04.022

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“…The significant results were found with positive coefficient value 0.389, standard error 0.06, t-value 6.817 > 2 and p-value 0.000 < 0.05. Correspondingly, these results are in line with past studies [84,85]. Global Entrepreneurship Monitor South Africa (2012) states that one-third of the country's economic growth momentum can be attributed to the dynamics of business start-up.…”

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Role of Business Incubators as a Tool for Entrepreneurship Development: The Mediating and Moderating Role of Business Start-Up and Government Regulations

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Khan

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Business incubators create value by combining the entrepreneurial spirit of start-ups with the resources that are typically available to new businesses. It is widely recognized that knowledge-based entrepreneurial companies are the main creators of economic growth, and such enterprises require special business development services. Therefore, the study aims to examine the role of business incubators in providing greater services (networking services, capital support, and training programs) in entrepreneurship development. Secondly, it also examines the mediating and moderating role of business start-up and government regulations for entrepreneurship. Using a quantitative methodology, we examine 567 samples through structural equation modeling. We find that the business incubators are playing an effective mediating role in providing networking services, capital support, and training programs to individuals and entrepreneurs, which are significant for entrepreneurship development, whereas business start-up positively mediates the relationship between networking services, capital support, training programs, and entrepreneurship development. Government regulations for entrepreneurship have a direct effect on entrepreneurship development. More importantly, government regulations for entrepreneurship have a positive moderating effect between business start-up and entrepreneurship development. Our study identifies the critical resources needed to improve the quality of business incubators and to ensure the availability of such resources to improve entrepreneurship development.

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Role of Business Incubators as a Tool for Entrepreneurship Development: The Mediating and Moderating Role of Business Start-Up and Government Regulations

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“…Our work has several limitations that future research will need to address. First, this study takes a first step toward understanding the activities undertaken by a particular type of business‐like customer, which falls within the broader category of digital entrepreneurs: “any agent that is engaged in any sort of venture, be it commercial, social, government, or corporate that uses digital technologies” (Sussan & Acs, 2017, p. 66; see also Cavallo, Ghezzi, Dell'Era, & Pellizzoni, 2019). As Nambisan (2017, p. 1032) recounts, however, “a greater number and diverse set of people” will engage in digital entrepreneurship as a result of the advance of digital technologies, platforms, and infrastructures.…”

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Customer entrepreneurship on digital platforms: Challenges and solutions for platform business models

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Drawing on the mixed methods of qualitative research and agent‐based simulation, this study examines: (a) how end‐users use digital platforms to become customer–entrepreneurs undertaking commercial activities on platforms; and (b) how platform providers can convert this customer entrepreneurship into a revenue stream. Considering that end‐users have traditionally been defined as passive and uncharged actors in platform business models, an in‐depth understanding of their commercial activities and the viable revenue model to monetize this emerging customer practice is warranted. Our qualitative study reveals that customer–entrepreneurs make substantial use of platform offerings to advertise their products; communicate with end‐consumers; and accept payments. These commercial activities are largely exercised for free on platforms, even though they could otherwise serve as a source of revenue. On this point, our simulation results identify two pricing models achieving the generation of nearly identical revenues over time. First, platform providers may charge both advertising and transaction fees, which maximize the survival of professional customer–entrepreneurs. Second, platform businesses may levy advertising fees only, which maximizes the survival of informal customer–entrepreneurs operating on a micro‐scale and part‐time basis. This study offers theoretical, methodological, and managerial implications for platform studies.

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“…Third, education through entrepreneurship concerns the use of new venture creation to help students acquire a range of knowledge and skills on business and entrepreneurship (Kirby, 2004; Man et al., 2015). The CLabs support students by providing meetings with corporations, investors, angel groups and venture capital funds that affect the growth and scale up of digital new ventures ( Cavallo et al., 2019 ). Twenty-three Italian CLabs were created in 2017–2020 through national government funding.…”

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Threat or opportunity? A case study of digital-enabled redesign of entrepreneurship education in the COVID-19 emergency

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Vecchio

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Fostering digital entrepreneurship from startup to scaleup: The role of venture capital funds and angel groups

Cited by 162 publications

References 99 publications

Role of Business Incubators as a Tool for Entrepreneurship Development: The Mediating and Moderating Role of Business Start-Up and Government Regulations

Role of Business Incubators as a Tool for Entrepreneurship Development: The Mediating and Moderating Role of Business Start-Up and Government Regulations

Customer entrepreneurship on digital platforms: Challenges and solutions for platform business models

Threat or opportunity? A case study of digital-enabled redesign of entrepreneurship education in the COVID-19 emergency

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