Overconfident entrepreneurs: Innovating more and paying the piper
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Financing; Innovation; Overconfidence; Patents; Research and Development;All these keywords.
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- M1 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration
- M2 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Economics
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