Knowledge, innovation and NTBF short- and long-term performance

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effect of knowledge resources stemming from the founding team’s human capital and the access to external sources of knowledge available at or near the NTBF’s inception on the venture’s short- and long-term performance. Whether innovation is a vehicle through which knowledge resources have an impact on results is also studied. While previous studies have often focused on one dimension of performance, we...