Technology and Innovation to Weather the Storm?—A Case Study of the Role of Technology and Innovation for Startup Survival in Shanghai, China

This chapter examines the challenges faced by startup companies in China during the great lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the first quarter of 2020. A study of six startup companies in Shanghai is conducted focused on the nature of challenges they have faced, their responses to these cha...

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Autores principales: Ro, Soong-Chul, Zhang, Zhigang, Dayaneni, Niharika, Chen, Renan
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Publicado: 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7869950/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4126-5_8
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spelling pubmed-78699502021-02-09 Technology and Innovation to Weather the Storm?—A Case Study of the Role of Technology and Innovation for Startup Survival in Shanghai, China Ro, Soong-Chul Zhang, Zhigang Dayaneni, Niharika Chen, Renan The Future of Service Post-COVID-19 Pandemic, Volume 1 Article This chapter examines the challenges faced by startup companies in China during the great lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the first quarter of 2020. A study of six startup companies in Shanghai is conducted focused on the nature of challenges they have faced, their responses to these challenges and the prospects for the post-pandemic business world in their respective area of business. Particular attention is paid to the roles of technology and entrepreneurship ecosystem involving venture capitals, incubators, and governments. The results lead to the conclusion to exercise caution regarding online technologies but highlight the importance of the entrepreneurship ecosystem for startup survival during the pandemic. 2021-02-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7869950/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4126-5_8 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence and indicate if you modified the licensed material. You do not have permission under this licence to share adapted material derived from this chapter or parts of it. The images or other third party material in this chapter are included in the chapter's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the chapter's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder.
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