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Entrepreneurship can have important positive effects linked to job creation, wealth and income generation, innovation … mechanism through which entrepreneurship can be encouraged, grown and its economic benefits harnessed. The effect of regulatory … conditions on entrepreneurship however is not well understood, and can be nuanced given the wide range of regulatory tools and …
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the productivity of incumbent firms is modeled as a function of firm attributes and regional entrepreneurship activity …. The analysis finds support for positive productivity effects of entrepreneurship on incumbent firms, albeit the effect … sectors appears to be more responsive to regional entrepreneurship, as compared to the productivity of manufacturing firms. …
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the connection between entrepreneurship and growth at the regional level differs between the U.S. and Sweden. By … regressing annual entrepreneurship on regional employment growth (and controlling for other conceivable variables impacting … employment growth) entrepreneurship is shown to be positively and significantly associated with regional growth in both countries …
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of university-based knowledge and international entrepreneurship. The analysis comprises a detailed case study of Swedish … philanthropy, promoting knowledge creation. International entrepreneurship has been an important mechanism by which this knowledge … entrepreneurship taking advantage of globalization, especially for smaller countries. …
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Knowledge plays a critical role in economic development, still our understanding of how knowledge is created, diffused and converted into growth, is fragmented and partial. The neoclassical growth models disregarded the entrepreneur and viewed knowledge as an exogenous factor. Contemporary...
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This paper explores the relationship between knowledge creation, entrepreneurship, and economic growth in the United … general knowledge and economically useful knowledge. Also missing is a mechanism (such as entrepreneurship) converting …
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Contemporary theories of entrepreneurship generally focus on the recognition of opportunities and the decision to … exploit them. While the prevailing view in the entrepreneurship literature is that opportunities are exogenous, the most … entrepreneurship and economic growth literatures by developing a knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship. Knowledge created …
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entrepreneurship and new firm formation are critical factors in determining economic growth and development. New firm entry into the …
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entrepreneurship onto the policy agenda of Western nations. Obstacles to economic progress were gradually being dismantled. These … way to catch up. Both forms of innovation and entrepreneurship, however, benefit from the same positive entrepreneurial …
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The extent and importance of spin-offs for industrial dynamics have been analysed in a number of previous studies, yet knowledge is surprisingly scarce about the determinants that trigger such entrepreneurial ventures. In the current analysis we use unique and detailed Swedish data to...
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