Browsing by Author "Pierrakis, Yannis"

Academic institutions and the changing entrepreneurial finance landscape

Pierrakis, Yannis; Berbegal Mirabent, Jasmina; Gil Doménech, Dolors; Colombo, Massimo G. (Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance, 2023)

Universities have emerged as central players in the fast-changing entrepreneurial finance landscape. This editorial introduces and describes the recent changes in academia and the entrepreneurial finance ...

Acceleralia, the design of a digital platform for corporate acceleration: the case study of PICVISA

Guardiet Mas, Joan Anton (Date of defense: 2023-03-07)

The aim of this thesis is twofold: being an industrial doctorate, the first two parts of the manuscript are centred around data analysis and interpretation of the impact of technology on the current ...

Avaluació i finançament d’inversions d’impacte

Gil Doménech, D.; Berbegal Mirabent, J.; Pierrakis, Yannis (2020)

Cleantech incubators within the sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystem: Fundraising sources, income generation strategies, and the role of public support

Pierrakis, Yannis; Ivanova, Anna; Chawdhary, Rahul (Strategic Change, 2024)

This paper explores the different financial viability strategies adopted by cleantech incubators (CTIs) located in both high-income and medium- and low-income countries. More specifically, we focus on ...

Do publicly backed venture capital investments promote innovation? Differences between privately and publicly backed funds in the UK venture capital market

Pierrakis, Yannis; Saridakis, George (Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2017)

This paper examines the link between publicly backed venture capital funds and business innovation in the UK venture capital market. In examining this relationship, the research empirically analyses the ...

Editorial entrepreneurial finance for green innovative SMEs

Owen, Robyn; Botelho, Tiago; Mac an Bhaird, Ciarán; Ghulam Hussain, Javed; Pierrakis, Yannis; Scott, Jonathan M. (IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 2023)

Exploring management buy-ins and open innovation dynamics: current trends and future directions

Tsvetkov, Nikolai; Pierrakis, Yannis; Abdi, Yaghoub (Management Decision, 2025)

Purpose: This paper explores the intersection of Management Buyouts (MBOs), Management Buy-ins (MBIs), and Open Innovation (OI). While MBOs have been associated with innovation in numerous studies, MBIs ...

Giving coins for free: Does digital outsourcing of technical and advisory support influence the success of initial coin offerings (ICOs)?

Pierrakis, Yannis; Bhimireddy, Nishanth (Strategic Change, 2023)

Initial coin offerings (ICOs) have emerged as a novel mechanism for financing entrepreneurial ventures. This relatively new application of blockchain technology allows a venture to raise money directly ...

Handbook of research on entrepreneurial success and its impact on regional development

Pierrakis, Yannis; Carvalho, L. (2015)

The Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurial Success and its Impact on Regional Development is a critical reference source for current research on entrepreneurship and its impact on regional development. ...

Innovation and Foresight in SMEs: Lessons From the Case of U.K. Digital Health Companies

Vecchiato, Riccardo; Do, Hang; Pierrakis, Yannis; Blackburn, Robert (IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 2023)

Technological innovation represents a significant opportunity for those organizations that are able to identify new technologies early and anticipate their future evolution and impact. At the same time, ...

Internationalisation and localisation: Foreign venture capital investments in the United Kingdom

Harrison, Richard T.; Yohanna, Babangida; Pierrakis, Yannis (Local Economy, 2020)

Venture capital plays a significant role in economic development through the emergence of new firms, technologies, industries and markets. This role, however, is associated with systemic uneven development ...

Peer-to-peer lending to businesses: Investors’ characteristics, investment criteria and motivation

Pierrakis, Yannis (The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 2019)

Online peer-to-peer (P2P) business lending, where individual investors provide unsecured loans directly to individual business borrowers without the intermediation of banks, has experienced rapid growth ...

Public Policies and Public Programs With a Regional Impact in Promoting Entrepreneurship: The Case Study of Government Backed Venture Capital Schemes in the UK

Pierrakis, Yannis (2018)

Public Policies and Public Programs with a Regional Impact in Promoting Entrepreneurship: The Case Study of Government Backed Venture Capital Schemes in the UK

Pierrakis, Yannis (2016)

This chapter adds to the growing literature from recent years on innovation finance, innovation systems, and regional economic policy. Although the role of business has been seen as critical within the ...

The role of venture capitalists in the regional innovation ecosystem: a comparison of networking patterns between private and publicly backed venture capital funds

Pierrakis, Yannis; Saridakis, George (The Journal of Technology Transfer, 2019)

This paper empirically examines the development of social networks among venture capitalists and other professionals of the regional innovation ecosystem. Using an online survey of venture capitalists, ...

Startup ventures and equity finance: How do Business Accelerators and Business Angels’ assess the human capital of socio-environmental mission led entrepreneurs?

Pierrakis, Yannis; Owen, Robyn (Innovation, 2022)

We investigate the role of entrepreneurs’ human capital on the potential of newly created ventures to receive equity funding from Accelerators and Business Angels using a resource-based approach to ...