Equity financing in entrepreneurship primarily includes venture capital, corporate venture
capital, angel investment, crowdfunding, and accelerators. We take stock of venture …

Corporate accelerators (CAs) are a fast-emerging form of corporate engagement with
startups. Equating them with independent startup accelerators and/or corporate venturing …

This paper identifies the extent to which knowledge from US universities drives industry
agglomeration. Establishment-level data indicate faster growth in employment, wages, and …

Social impact accelerators (SIAs) seek to select startups with the potential to generate
financial returns and social impact. Through the lenses of signaling theory and gender role …

This paper defines and analyses incubators that mainly support start-ups with a significant
social impact. In 2016, a survey was conducted on the 162 incubators active in Italy, and a …

Accelerators are a fast-growing form of entrepreneurship support. Literature about them
remains descriptive and disjointed. While some consider them new, others believe them to …

Research Summary We conduct a field experiment at an entrepreneurship bootcamp to
investigate whether interaction with proximate peers shapes a nascent startup team's …

Over the past decade, accelerators have demonstrated their pivotal contribution to the
economic and entrepreneurial ecosystem growth. In recent years, a large number of …

In this paper, we shed new light on the links between firm-level innovation and growth. We
introduce data that capture a difficult-to-observe aspect of firms' innovative activity–new …

We combine theory and evidence on incubator and accelerator programmes and their
effects on urban economic development. These structured co-working programmes have …