Hugo Kantis

Hugo Kantis
  • Phd
  • Managing Director at National University of General Sarmiento

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Introduction
My current research is focusing on: a) entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystems from an evolutionary perspective and tipology builidng. b) corporate venturing, open innovation and startups c) systemic conditions for dynamic entrepreneurship (growth entrepreneurship)
Current institution
National University of General Sarmiento
Current position
  • Managing Director

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Publications (47)
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The article offers a systemic approach to analyzing access to early-stage financing across 17 Latin American cities. The study emphasizes the critical role of dynamic entrepreneurship, which includes firms with sustained growth potential, in regional economic development. However, access to financing remains a significant challenge for most ecosyst...
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The acceleration of the technological progress forces corporations to review their innovation strategies, looking for a greater flexibility and faster knowledge acquisition to sustain their competitive advantages. In this context, collaboration with startups seems a plausible and effective way to pursuing open innovation strategies. Results show th...
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Bangalore's IT entrepreneurial ecosystem boomed in the 2010s. However, its recent development is the result of an accumulative process of capacities building. The objective of this article is to analyze this process from systemic and evolutionary perspective, inspired by some Latin American contributions. This study adopted a single in-depth case s...
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Most governments around the world are fostering innovation and entrepreneurial systems with a prominent role for venture capital (VC) support policies. However, the debate about the role and impact of VC support policies is still focused on the countries of the Global North. In this context, this paper seeks to describe and analyse the role that th...
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En tiempos de crisis sólo la imaginación es tan importante como el conocimiento. Nunca más vigente que hoy esta frase de Albert Einstein, cuando los emprendedores, los gobiernos y las demás organizaciones de los ecosistemas de emprendimiento e innovación enfrentan desafíos inéditos. Además de atender el presente, estos desafíos incluyen la necesida...
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Las políticas de apoyo al emprendimiento están ganado espacio en las agendas de la mayoría de los países del mundo. En este marco, es cada vez más necesario disponer de evidencias que permitan valorar la contribución efectiva de estas políticas y conocer cuáles funcionan y cuáles no. Esta necesidad llevó a una creciente difusión de las evaluaciones...
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¿Cuáles han sido los principales impactos de la crisis del COVID-19 sobre las condiciones sistémicas para el emprendimiento dinámico a nivel global? ¿Qué contrastes aparecen entre regiones y países? ¿Cómo imaginamos la futura evolución de los ecosistemas emprendedores en el mediano plazo? La aparición de la pandemia y sus consecuencias sociales y e...
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What have been the main impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on the systemic conditions for dynamic entrepreneurship around the globe? How do these effects compare across countries and regions? What can we imagine about how entrepreneurship ecosystems will continue to evolve? The surge of the pandemic and its social and economic consequences are posing a...
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Entrepreneurial ecosystems (EE) and national systems of innovation (NSI) are central to the study of entrepreneurship and innovation from the geographical angle. Recent bibliometric analyses show that the number of NSI citations has boomed since 2000 (Jurowetzki et al., 2015) whereas that of the EE has increased since 2010 (Alvedalen & Boschma, 201...
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Las políticas de apoyo al emprendimiento están ganado espacio en las agendas de la mayoría de los países del mundo. En este marco, es cada vez más necesario disponer de evidencias que permitan valorar la contribución efectiva de estas políticas y conocer cuáles funcionan y cuáles no. Esta necesidad llevó a una creciente difusión de las evaluaciones...
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Entrepreneurship policies are now widely spread among the general policy agenda in most of the countries. In particular, emerging countries started to focus on startups and young firms as potential engines of economic growth and structural transformation. Therefore, several governments from these countries are devoting significant efforts to develo...
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La creciente digitalización de la economía ha transformado notablemente el escenario en el que se desarrollan los negocios en la actualidad. Así, junto a las nuevas tecnologías, han surgido sectores, modelos de negocios y hábitos de consumo que ya están cambiando significativamente la manera en que consumimos y producimos hoy en día. Como se verá a...
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The context in which new businesses emerge is important. A key aspect to consider is technological change and its implications on society, with its relevant impact on the opportunities and challenges that entrepreneurs face. In this sense, the past few years have witnessed the impact of digital transformation on everyday life. Nowadays, from our mo...
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The IDE provides information about the social, economic, cultural, political and regulatory frameworks conditions that affect not only the creation of new dynamic firms but also the emergence of potential entrepreneurs willing to create them, adopting an evolutionary and systemic approach. The IDE has been calculated following the OECD and ECLAC be...
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En el presente estudio se caracterizan y analizan los principales indicadores de dinámica empresarial (nacimientos, muerte y supervivencia de empresas) en Argentina en el período 1996-2011, evaluando no solo su evolución en el tiempo sino también su contribución en términos de generación de empleo. Se dedica un espacio destacado a la identificación...
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This study identifies and discusses the different post-investment trajectories of Latin American young technology-based firms (YTBFs). Two contrasting types of post-investment trajectories were identified: the ‘fast sale’, in which local YTBFs are purchased by a foreign firm and founders decide to leave the company, and the ‘multilatina’, in which...
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Purpose The aim of this study is to advance the understanding of firm growth determinants by comparing the factors influencing young firms' growth in 13 countries corresponding to three contrasting regions. Design/methodology/approach The authors propose an integrated model of venture growth where entrepreneurs' profile, firm resources and market...
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Based on a cross-country comparison of dynamic new firms, this paper attempts to characterize Latin American middle-class entrepreneurs and their firms. In general, Latin American middle-class entrepreneurs tend to face more difficult conditions in terms of resources and skills acquisition than those belonging to more affluent social strata. They t...
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Using household surveys from Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, and El Salvador, this paper assesses the contribution of entrepreneurship to socioeconomic mobility and to understand the main variables associated with entrepreneurial propensity in selected Latin American countries. It is found that, at the aggregate regional level, income mobility is...
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Las evidencias existentes a nivel internacional y en algunos países de la región indican que las empresas que consigue nacer y crecer en forma significativa y acelerada (emprendimientos dinámicos) constituyen una porción pequeña del total de las empresas que se crean pero, al cabo de unos años, explican una parte muy relevante del nuevo empleo sost...
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Though time is an important dimension of the venture creation process, our understanding of why some entrepreneurs are able to act more quickly than others is limited. Equally, not much is known about the relationship between venture creation speed and the subsequent venture growth. In this paper, we use a resource-based perspective to provide insi...
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Using data of young firms from Latin America and Mediterranean Europe, we analyse the influence of human and relational capital on the likelihood of creating an early internationalising firm (EIF). Our results indicate that in the context of Latin American countries entrepreneurs' characteristics as well as their networks of relationships may influ...
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This paper highlights the importance of youth entrepreneurship in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as the challenges and opportunities faced by young entrepreneurs. The authors analyze the differences between youth who become entrepreneurs by necessity or by opportunity, and also review the scope and quality of policies and programs that go...
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EuskaraBadago zerbait baino gehiago nolabaiteko aukera ematen duena jakintzan oinarrituriko enpresak sortzea eskualdeko egitura produktiboak aberastu eta anizteko baita ekonomiaren batezbesteko emankortasuna handitzeko ere agian mesedegarria izan daitekeelako ustea adierazi ahal izateko. Nolanahi ere ez dago ekintzaileak eta enpresa ekintzaileak pr...
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Most of the research of entrepreneurship is based in empirical evidence obtained in developed countries. In Latin America this field of research is less advanced and the available information is not comparable with other regions. In the last years GEM projects (GEM, 2002, 2003) have provided information about entrepreneurship in some Latin American...
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El objetivo de este documento es describir las principales características y factores estructurales que influyen directa o indirectamente sobre el proceso emprendedor en Uruguay haciendo énfasis en los factores que podrían constituir fuertes impulsos o barreras al desarrollo emprendedor en el país. El estudio adopta un enfoque sistémico que conside...
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This publication analyzes the profile of entrepreneurs and how they create high-growth businesses in 13 countries in Latin America, East Asia and southern Europe. It also offers case studies of entrepreneurship development policies and programs in the Americas and Europe. The comparative analysis of the 13 entrepreneur development systems, in combi...
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This report presents the results of a comparative study of entrepreneurship in Latin America and East Asia. It focuses on the process of creation of new companies. That process is analyzed at three different stages: inception of the entrepreneurial venture, company start-up, and its early development. From the initial motivation to become an entrep...
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Over the last years we witnessed the consolidation of several factors that favor the birth of new ventures with a strong orientation to foreign markets, contrary to the traditional gradualist theory of SMEs' internationalization. Moreover, some authors even claim that we are faced with a new phenomenon, in which the emergence of new ventures and th...
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Agosto del 2000 Este trabajo es parte del proyecto "Estudio comparativo sobre Entrepreneurship: América Latina y Asia", coordinado por el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo a nivel internacional y por el Instituto de Industria de la Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento a nivel de Latinoamérica. ABSTRACT La emergencia de nuevos emprendimientos...

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