... A quantitative data mining approach was applied to survey data from 193 ventures funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation in Brazil, considering six EE pillars: financial support, regulatory environment, government assistance, infrastructure, social factors and education and training. After preprocessing...

... is not superior to, or less biased than, a misspecified model with only five of them. Extra controls can leverage correlations with other omitted variables, amplifying omitted variable bias (Clarke, 2005). Human capital Foreign direct investment Extreme bounds analysis Sensitivity analysis Data mining...