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Antifragility in Innovative Start-Ups: Resources, Relationships, People

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Contexts of uncertainty, such as the pandemic, cause exogenous shocks for different players in the global economic system. Some actors, however, react by turning crises into opportunities: a property called antifragility. This study has the goal to identify antecedents of antifragility in innovative start-ups. The paper presents the results of a survey conducted on Italian innovative start-ups during the Covid-19 crisis to investigate the links between the antifragile reaction and factors as intangible capital, availability of uncommitted tangible resources (or slack), technologies and absorptive capacity.

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    Vincenzo Corvello, Serafina Montefresco & Saverino Verteramo

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Corvello, V., Montefresco, S., Verteramo, S. (2023). Antifragility in Innovative Start-Ups: Resources, Relationships, People. In: Visvizi, A., Troisi, O., Grimaldi, M. (eds) Research and Innovation Forum 2022. RIIFORUM 2022. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19560-0_40

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