 French technology start-ups: how and why are they succeeding?Diane Saty Kouamé and Silvester Ivanaj International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2017, vol. 30, issue 4, 490-508 Abstract: In this paper, we explore the conditions in which technology start-ups in France can be successful. We collected data from 467 French technology start-ups. Based on the most significant criteria of success from literature, in terms of economic and financial performance, we perform a cluster analysis for identifying successful businesses and a binomial regression model to determine the success or failure factors, relating to venture capital funding and the attributes of the technology start-up. We found that successful French technology start-ups succeed in terms of economic performance, job creation, major investments, operating in the international market, developing additional export-facing strategies and using venture capital financing. Our findings provide support for the applicability of the financing decisions to enable success of high technologies start-ups in the France, especially the venture capital resources. Keywords: France; technology start-ups; taxonomy; start-up success; start-up failure; financial performance; cluster analysis; venture capital funding; start-up attributes; economic performance; job creation; investment; export strategies. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijesbu:v:30:y:2017:i:4:p:490-508 Access Statistics for this article More articles in International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd |
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