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Which Immigrants Are Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial: Distinctions by Entry Visa

Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a...

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Perceptions, Expectations, and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Extreme Events

Brück, Tilman; Llussá, Fernanda; Tavares, José - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We provide, for the first time, comparative evidence of the impact of various types of extreme events – natural disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts – on the perceptions of entrepreneurs concerning some key entrepreneurial issues – such as fear of failure in starting a business...

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Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurs to Create Larger Firms?

Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across individuals and institutional contexts. Our framework generates hypotheses about the negative impact of higher levels of corruption, weaker property rights and especially...

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Innovative firms or innovative owners? : determinants of innovation in micro, small, and medium enterprises

De Mel, Suresh J. - 2009

"Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across … and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have … restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation to consideration of the role of firm characteristics. The authors …

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Promoting Innovative Entrepreneurship in Viet Nam

World Bank - 2023

national flagship Program 844 on "Supporting the National Innovation Initiative to 2025" toward building a pipeline of …

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Entrepreneurial Innovations, Entrepreneurship Policy and Globalization

Douhan, Robin; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

What explains the world-wide trend of pro-entrepreneurial policies? We study entrepreneurial policy in a lobbying model taking into account the conflict of interest between entrepreneurs and incumbents. It is shown that international market integration leads to more pro-entrepreneurial policies....

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Management of Knowledge Workers

Hvide, Hans K; Kristiansen, Eirik Gaard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We study how complementarities and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main …

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And the Winner Is--Acquired: Entrepreneurship as a Contest with Acquisition as the Prize

Henkel, Joachim; Rønde, Thomas; Wagner, Marcus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

paper, we analyze a two-stage innovation game between one incumbent and a large number of entrants. In the first stage … innovation. In the second stage, successful entrants bid to be acquired by the incumbent. We assume that entrants cannot survive …&D approaches than the incumbent and are more likely to generate the highest value innovation. Thus, the need of entrants to be …

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Creative Destruction and Productive Preemption

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that an invention of higher quality is …

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Financial Signalling by Innovative Nascent Entrepreneurs

Audretsch, David B; Bönte, Werner; Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

innovation to the financiers through patenting and prototyping activities, right in the early stages of the venture. We build a …

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