In an effort to more rapidly develop their infrastructure, economies and living standards, many newly industrialized countries, such as Thailand, have embarked on a series of international Technology Transfer (TT) initiatives within the construction and other industries. However, these initiatives have not immediately translated into enhanced capabilities and competitiveness within indigenous f...

Venture capitalists (VCs) make only a small number of investments and are more likely to invest in ventures where other VCs have invested previously. As such, valuable opportunities may be forgone if they not funded by the first place. We demonstrate how crowdfunding (CF) can remedy this concern. Using sample new technology-based ventures, we reveal that initially through reward-based CF even t...

One of the most important challenges for social venture entrepreneurs is acquiring resources. Reward crowdfunding considered a suitable tool meeting financing needs ventures, whose backers are particularly interested in firm ideas and core values rather than collaterals or business plans. A strategic factor that able to influence outcome campaigns entrepreneurial narrative. Very few scholars ha...

The Impact of Research Joint Ventures on Firm Performance: An Empirical Assessment Research and Development Joint Ventures are based on cooperative agreements where firms share the costs and results of a particular research project. While theoretical analysis of research joint ventures on profits, R&D intensity, output and prices is more developed in the existing literature, few empirical inves...

the purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of import of technology on iranian economy. we have used multi-sectoral and multi–regional computable general equilibrium gtap model. transfer of technology from one region to another is another factor effecting productivity. trade is one of the channels that speeds the transfer of technology. the effect of a ten percent productivity shock, in...

Researchers have generally suggested that new technology firms should exploit radical technologies with broad scope patents to compete with established firms, implying that new firms founded to exploit university inventions will be more likely to survive in all industries if they possess these attributes. However, the existing empirical evidence indicates that the effectiveness of these two dim...

Entrepreneurs can leverage investor networks generated in the course of equity-based crowdfunding campaigns to obtain extra financial resources. While much is known about how resources that improve venture success are configured, less attention has been paid organisational challenges involved their utilisation and overcome them. These represent an impediment crowd openness for new ventures. Thr...