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Start-ups and SMEs investment features: spotlight on Italian reality
No full textAccess to finance has been acknowledged on research, practitioners and policy sides as being one of the most important factors for start-up activity and SME development and growth. Notwithstanding this importance, a holistic view of the Italian market in terms of types of investors, investment stages and dominant investment patterns is missing as is a comparison with the larger European context.
We aim to shed more light on this topic in order to identify and explain potential differences in investment practices for start ups and SMEs. Such findings will be of great value for all players involved. Entrepreneurs may be able to better address their investment requests, investors may find a benchmark with Europe useful in order to develop or redress their current activities and, finally, policy makers will be able to identify and design programs which are able to fill the gap between private investors and investment needs of start-ups and SMEs which are the backbone of economic activity in Italy.
Our analysis shows that, as compared to the European practice, investment in Italy remains mainly confined to the early stages while funding of growth and expansion is negligible but we also identify differences in investment levels and sectorial distribution
Il gap di Ruggeri Apugliese
No full textEdizione sinottica del gap di Ruggeri Apugliese, poeta italiano del secolo XII
Uscita imprenditoriale: Panoramica, Determinanti, e Fondatori abituali
No full textThe growing literature dedicated to entrepreneurship has recently highlighted the importance of considering the founded firms’ exit not as an ending, negative stage in an entrepreneur’s work-life experience. Instead, the decision to leave one’s venture is a strategic choice undertaken for the firm’s sake or as a founding entrepreneur’s lifestyle choice and leading to various after-exit paths.
The thesis contributes to the stream of literature dedicated to the entrepreneurial exit and habitual entrepreneurship fields by (i) exploring the antecedents of the cross-road choice that founding entrepreneurs take right-after an acquisition occurs using a prospect theory approach and by (ii) investigating the characteristics that differentiate habitual founders from lifestyle entrepreneurs, borrowing from human capital theory and building on recent work in the field. From a methodological viewpoint, the thesis’ main contributions include (i) the use of a large dataset of 14,881 founders, created on the bases of the Crunchbase database (data.crunchbase.com), (ii) the focus on the very-after acquisition step taken by the founding entrepreneur and investigated in North America, Europe, and Asia, and (iii) the introduction of a relatively new unit of analysis -- habitual founders -- when discussing the characteristics of habitual entrepreneurship.
After introducing the thesis’ main concepts in Chapter 1, the various contributions are developed in the three following chapters. Chapter 2 offers a descriptive study of the current literature in the entrepreneurial exit field, with particular attention given to the individual voluntary choice of exiting the founded firm. Chapter 3 extends the previous study by focusing on the antecedents of the founder’s intention to leave or remain within the firm right after encountering its acquisition from external actors and investigating whether results hold across world regions. Chapter 4 centers the study on the differences leading entrepreneurs toward a lifestyle versus a multiple-ventures creation entrepreneurial approach. The Appendix offers a step-by-step explanation of the procedures undertaken to create the database; it is thought to be used by other researchers as a guideline toward the creation of a similar database
Albertet, “Donna pros e richa” (BdT 16.11)
Full text linkThis paper will provide a commentary and a new critical edition of “Donna pros e richa” by Albertet, a poem with an exceptional metrical structure, halfway between a ‘canso’ and an isostrophic ‘descort’. Its structure is identical to Raimbaut de Vaqueiras’ “Carros” (BdT 392.32): most likely Albertet’s poem is the original while “Truan, mala guerra” is a contrafactum, considering the fact that it is comparable to a sirventes. The lyric self urgently requests the love of a Genoese lady, complaining of her indifference and cursing her quite violently at the end of each stanza. The passionate tone that characterizes the poem becomes less so towards the end where God is finally called upon to protect the lady. What is clear here is, on the one hand, the poem’s conformity with the characteristics of the ‘mala canso’, and, on the other, its similarity with another poem by Raimbaut de Vaqueiras, the ‘contrasto’ with the Genoese lady (BdT 392.7). Thus Albertet’s poem is curious from different points of view: for its metrical form, uncommon in a ‘canso’; for its linguistic register which ressembles that of narrative genres such as the ‘fabliaux’; for its rhymes which offer a series of analogies and exchanges of rhyme-words with the two Raimbauts, the previously mentioned Raimbaut de Vaqueiras and Raimbaut d’Aurenga
Albertet, “En amor trob tantz de mals seignoratges” (BdT 16.13)
No full textThe article provides a commentary and a new critical edition of Albertet’s poem “En amor trob tantz de mals seignoratges”, in which the troubadour praises some of the most courtly ladies of his time. The poem can be linked to the genre of the collective eulogy, where the enumerated ladies are praised essentially for political reasons, since the commendation is clearly addressed to the men hidden behind them: famous specimena of this genre are the ‘tournoiements des dames’ by Huon d’Oisy and Richard de Semilli and Raimbaut de Vaqueiras’ “Carros” (BdT 392.32). Albertet’s song starts with a misogynic tone, since the poet declares that celebrating or loving ladies is worthless, given their immoral behaviour, and with a polemic against the strict rules of courtly love. This misogyny, as is further discovered, is a rhetorical device to praise women as well as a tool to renew the genre of the love song from a thematic point of view
Comensamen comensarai: per una tipologia degli incipit trobadorici
No full textLo studio propone una tipologizzazione di tutti i circa 2500 incipit trobadorici e un'analisi della loro fortuna nelle letterature romanze medievali
Limiti tra nuova normalità, complicanze ed insuccessi nelle protesi.
No full textLe modificazioni indotte dall'impianto protesico nell'osso, nei tessuti periarticolari, in tutto l'apparato muscolo-scheletrico e anche nell'intero individuo vengono prese in considerazione in modo da identificare e descrivere la situazione di "nuova normalità" ottenuta con un intervento che ha raggiunto lo scopo prefisso, nonchè i fattori che condizionano il suo determinismo. Vengono inoltre valutate le complicanze ed espresso il significato degli insuccessi nella chirurgia protesica articolare. I parametri della "nuova normalità" possono essere così riassunti: situazione biomeccanica dell'articolazione simile a quella fisiologica per quanto riguarda l'entità e la distribuzione dei carichi e delle sollecitazioni applicate; conseguente conservazione della situazione strutturale dell'osso, per effetto di un equilibrato bone remodeling; situazione funzionale quasi fisiologica, sia a livello dell'articolazione protesizzata che a livello delle altre strutture articolari e muscolo-legamentose che partecipano al movimento; infine, risultato clinico ottimale, non solo obbiettivo ma anche soggettivo per quanto riguarda il grado di soddisfazione del paziente.
I fattori che sono stati riconosciuti critici per il raggiungimento della "nuova normalità" sono: la protesi, con le sue caratteristiche di disegno e materiali, l'indicazione all'intervento, la tecnica chirurgica e le caratteristiche psico-fisiche del pazient
Comensamen comensarai: per una tipologia degli incipit trobadorici
No full textL'intervento presenta una classificazione tipologica di tutti i versi incipitali della lirica in lingua d'o
Le canzoni di disamore
No full textL'intervento illustra alcune scelte critiche operate dalle relatrici nella riedizione dei testi in lingua d'oc incentrati sul disamore
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