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This chapter relied on the AEGIS database to describe KIE firms in the textile and apparel industries. Relevant characteristics include the age of the firms, their number of employees, and characteristics of their founders. The human capital characteristics of the founders of KIE firms include age, education, and work experience.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The number of UK firms in the textile industry is greater than the number of Portuguese textile firms. When we do signal out characteristics of UK firms, we do so only for textile firms because the number of UK apparel firms is small in comparison to those in Italy and Portugal.

  2. 2.

    The mean percentages in the were calculated as [part ‐ time employees/(full ‐ time employees + part ‐ time employees)].

  3. 3.

    Although beyond the scope of the AEGIS data, a study of changes in the percent of part-time employees over time is certainly warranted.

  4. 4.

    As a robustness check on the implications of this simplifying assumption, we also calculated the average age of all founders within each firm. Those results are virtually indistinguishable from the descriptive information in Table 5.10.

  5. 5.

    This conclusion holds even when the average of the age or education of all of the founders in firms is used rather than the age or education of the first-listed founder.

  6. 6.

    An earlier version of the material in this appendix appeared in Link and Strong (2016).

  7. 7.

    An earlier version of the material in this appendix appeared in Link and Strong (2016).

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  1. Department of Consumer, Apparel, and Retail Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, USA

    Nancy J. Hodges

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Appendix 5.A Annotated Academic Literature Reviews (Table 5.11)

Table 5.11 Annotated literature review related to financial capital
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Appendix 5.B Annotated Academic Literature Reviews (Table 5.12)

Table 5.12 Annotated literature review related to nascent entrepreneurs
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Hodges, N.J., Link, A.N. (2018). Characteristics of KIE Textile and Apparel Firms and Founders. In: Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurship. International Studies in Entrepreneurship, vol 39. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68777-3_5

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