New Tracking Methods to Research the Business Creation Activities Among Entrepreneurs

Responsible Innovation in Platform based FinTech Start-ups

The payment services market is growing; more and more companies introduce new payment methods, transaction systems, payment administration platforms, subscription methods and so on. These innovative new payment services, part of the innovative financial services or ‘FinTech’ industry, often introduce new challenges compared to the conventional...

Pioneering start-ups' first mover advantages and success factors in B2B service markets

Less attention has been given to first mover or pioneer advantages (FMA) for services than for physical products. Likewise, less attention has been given to FMA for business-to-business (B2B) markets than for business-to-customer markets. This research investigates FMA for B2B services using a grounded theory approach in existing academic...

Challenge accepted - Why some entrepreneurs succeed where others do not: An exploratory study on context and challenge perception and the choice of strategic activities of entrepreneurs in Dutch high-technology and clean-technology start-ups

Wealth, prosperity and sustainable economic growth for future generations are topics which today’s policy makers and society have to deal with on an everyday basis. Radical technologies, disrupting incumbent technological and societal regimes play an important role in realizing these advances. Entrepreneurial innovation has been identified as...

Common risks and mitigation methods of start-up firms in Dutch business incubators

This study, primarily, seeks to reveal the most common and most dangerous risks as perceived by entrepreneurs and also present those mitigation methods that they chose to apply. As a secondary aim, the study looks for correlations between the appearance (encounter) and dangerousness (owner’s perception) with basic firm characteristics, such as...