Recent years have seen the rapid emergence of a new format of corporate-startup engagement: the corporate accelerator program. This format aims to support early-stage ventures to overcome their initial challenges, while fostering corporate innovation within established firms. Extant literature has emphasized the importance of networking for entrepreneurs to increase their chances of survival. Accordingly, networking opportunities constitute a major reason for startups to join an accelerator. To date, research on corporate accelerators has remained scarce and left it unclear how networking happens in this context. This thesis sheds light upon why and how startups network within corresponding programs and explores the implications of ...
Objectives Practicing entrepreneurs must develop knowledge and skills to grow their businesses, but ...
The growth of tech-startups such as Airbnb and Uber into multibillion-dollar companies has a strong ...
Incumbent firms are in general not likely to pursue disruptive business concepts and are often expos...
The business accelerator has been a rising organizational model from the last two decades onward. As...
An increasing number of established companies have recently started to launch corporate accelerator ...
Corporates increasingly pursue collaborations with start-ups in order to foster external innovation....
Background: The Corporate Accelerator (CA) trend has extended beyond high technology industries, gai...
Abstract This thesis explores the nature of the relationship between startup and corporation within ...
This research focuses on the new, early-stage entrepreneurial support mechanism – the accelerator. S...
The recent phenomenon of corporate accelerators is an excellent opportunity for incumbent companies ...
Corporate accelerators (CAs) have emerged as a key component of entrepreneurship ecosystems, offerin...
Thesis: S.M. in Engineering and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Syste...
The purpose of this study was to examine best practices in the business accelerator industry as pre...
Accelerators are a new and fast-growing element in entrepreneurial ecosystems. However, our understa...
The corporate accelerator phenomenon is increasing in popularity and is a common vehicle of external...
Objectives Practicing entrepreneurs must develop knowledge and skills to grow their businesses, but ...
The growth of tech-startups such as Airbnb and Uber into multibillion-dollar companies has a strong ...
Incumbent firms are in general not likely to pursue disruptive business concepts and are often expos...
The business accelerator has been a rising organizational model from the last two decades onward. As...
An increasing number of established companies have recently started to launch corporate accelerator ...
Corporates increasingly pursue collaborations with start-ups in order to foster external innovation....
Background: The Corporate Accelerator (CA) trend has extended beyond high technology industries, gai...
Abstract This thesis explores the nature of the relationship between startup and corporation within ...
This research focuses on the new, early-stage entrepreneurial support mechanism – the accelerator. S...
The recent phenomenon of corporate accelerators is an excellent opportunity for incumbent companies ...
Corporate accelerators (CAs) have emerged as a key component of entrepreneurship ecosystems, offerin...
Thesis: S.M. in Engineering and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Syste...
The purpose of this study was to examine best practices in the business accelerator industry as pre...
Accelerators are a new and fast-growing element in entrepreneurial ecosystems. However, our understa...
The corporate accelerator phenomenon is increasing in popularity and is a common vehicle of external...
Objectives Practicing entrepreneurs must develop knowledge and skills to grow their businesses, but ...
The growth of tech-startups such as Airbnb and Uber into multibillion-dollar companies has a strong ...
Incumbent firms are in general not likely to pursue disruptive business concepts and are often expos...