Add to ORKGHuman capital is known to be one of the most important predictors of a person's earnings. With regard to entrepreneurial success, founders' human capital is an important determinant of firm's employment growth as well. This paper investigates if the depreciation of a founder's academic knowledge affects a start-up's employment growth. The depreciation of academic knowledge is investigated by quantifying the effect of the time period which elapses after the founder has left university until the start-up is founded on firm's employment growth. Using quantile regressions, human capital depreciation is found to be of crucial importance for both ordinary academic start-ups and academic spin-offs, the founders of the latter suffering even more fr...
Understanding the impact of human capital on small business development is crucial to both entrepren...
Academic spin-offs are one way in which employability of university graduates is reflected. Using th...
This thesis presents three quantitative empirical studies, utilising two US cohorts from the harmoni...
Human capital is known to be one of the most important predictors of a person's earnings. With regar...
We examine whether founders’ backgrounds influence new firm survival in the early years after start-...
This paper builds on human capital theory to assess the importance of formal education among graduat...
In order to preserve innovation, knowledge development and diffusion, as well as the transfer of new...
In this paper, we analyze empirically the relation between the growth of new technology-based firms ...
Preliminary and incomplete The goal of this paper is to study the role of unobserved human capital i...
Abstract in Undetermined Using a sample of 7,260 university employees, we investigate how legitimacy...
Using a sample of 7,260 university employees, we investigate how legitimacy, social and human capita...
In order to preserve innovation, knowledge development and diffusion, as well as the transfer of new...
The effect of founder characteristics in attracting external investment and enhancing survival of ne...
The model developed in this paper draws on human capital theory to explain how newly founded busines...
This paper analyses the factors which determine individuals' choice into self-employment and the det...
Understanding the impact of human capital on small business development is crucial to both entrepren...
Academic spin-offs are one way in which employability of university graduates is reflected. Using th...
This thesis presents three quantitative empirical studies, utilising two US cohorts from the harmoni...
Human capital is known to be one of the most important predictors of a person's earnings. With regar...
We examine whether founders’ backgrounds influence new firm survival in the early years after start-...
This paper builds on human capital theory to assess the importance of formal education among graduat...
In order to preserve innovation, knowledge development and diffusion, as well as the transfer of new...
In this paper, we analyze empirically the relation between the growth of new technology-based firms ...
Preliminary and incomplete The goal of this paper is to study the role of unobserved human capital i...
Abstract in Undetermined Using a sample of 7,260 university employees, we investigate how legitimacy...
Using a sample of 7,260 university employees, we investigate how legitimacy, social and human capita...
In order to preserve innovation, knowledge development and diffusion, as well as the transfer of new...
The effect of founder characteristics in attracting external investment and enhancing survival of ne...
The model developed in this paper draws on human capital theory to explain how newly founded busines...
This paper analyses the factors which determine individuals' choice into self-employment and the det...
Understanding the impact of human capital on small business development is crucial to both entrepren...
Academic spin-offs are one way in which employability of university graduates is reflected. Using th...
This thesis presents three quantitative empirical studies, utilising two US cohorts from the harmoni...