Studying the Characteristics of Emerging Firms with High Growth Potential (Start-up Business) in Bulgaria

Innovations and entrepreneurship for en­couraging and achieving stable growth in terms of the globalization of economics is an undeni­able priority. The problem’s priority lies in a num­ber of European and national (resp. Bulgarian) strategic documents, with the necessity for de­signing and implementing appropriate operative measure for encouraging investments in newly created enterprises with growth potential taking center stage. At present, the Bulgarian scientific and eco­nomic community can talk about studies whose targets are either innovations or entrepreneur­ship firms as a subject of research and analy­sis. However, combining the two targets under the problems of creating, developing and en­couraging START-up businesses would repeat­edly increase the focus and effectiveness of the achieved results in the field of economic policies and strategies. Studies of these impor­tant problems are nothing new for global eco­nomic thought – a number of researchers can be named, such as Gerard Groenewegen and Frank de Langen in 2008, Schilling in 2008, Zan­dberg in 2008, Rauch in 2000, Berm in 2008, De Mel in 2009, Abetti in 2000, Verganti in 2008, Brink in 2005, Song in 2008, etc. who research individual and single factors which are consid­ered to be successful or limiting emerging firms with high growth potential (START-up) in their activities, development and expansion.