Books in the Innovation und Entrepreneurship series

Individuals and firms can improve their performance through collaboration and competition. Jonas Heite investigates this question by assessing efforts to stimulate R&D collaboration and by examining properties as well as underlying mechanisms (e.g., effort, risk, confidence and stress) of ability configurations in contests.

Michael Moedl examines the impact and signaling effects of crowd-based start-up financing on subsequent venture capital funding rounds.

The author's findings challenge theories of linguistic relativity, foreign language effects, and cultural accommodation, and enrich the empirical basis for fundamental research on language and behavior.