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The Firm and the Region as Breeding Grounds for Entrepreneurs
Baltzopoulos, Apostolos - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009
into entrepreneurship. I also find evidence that people are more likely to select the path of self-employment in the face …
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Agglomeration Externalities and Entrepreneurship - micro-level evidence from Sweden
Baltzopoulos, Apostolos - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009
and entrepreneurship. It does so by looking at the importance of Marshallian specialization and Jacobian diversity …
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The Returns to Education for Opportunity Entrepreneurs, Necessity Entrepreneurs, and Paid Employees
Fossen, Frank M.; Büttner, Tobias J. M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
We assess the relevance of formal education for the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative employment options. We expect differences in the returns to...
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Pragmatic entrepreneurs and institutionalized scholars? - On the path-dependent nature of entrepreneurship scholarship
Wennberg, Karl; Berglund, Henrik - Ratioinstitutet - 2014
Research surveys of the field of entrepreneurship suggest that the maturation and institutionalization of … entrepreneurship as a research field brings about both new opportunities and constraints from established thoughts and practices. In … research in entrepreneurship is becoming increasingly institutionalized with regard to different issues: successively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011096126
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What determines entry? Evidence from Sweden
Elert, Niklas - Ratioinstitutet - 2012
In the literature concerning the geography of new firm formation, explanatory variables pertaining to industrial organization and political economy are seldom considered. Such variables were thus included when investigating what conditions influenced entry of Swedish limited liability firms...
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Entreprenörskap bland forskare – hur viktigt är det egentligen?
Wennberg, Karl - Ratioinstitutet - 2014
Denna artikel sammanfattar forskning om olika typer av kommersialiseringsmiljöer med bas i akademiska teorier och empiriska studier från Sverige. Målsättningen är att bidra till kritisk reflektion kring kommersialiseringsmiljöer och de policyåtgärder som myndigheter, universitet och...
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Small business exit: Review of past research, theoretical considerations and suggestions for future research
DeTienne, Dawn; Wennberg, Karl - Ratioinstitutet - 2013
outcomes operating at multiple levels of analysis. We do so because entrepreneurship research is often considered a … phenomenondriven academic field (Shane, 2003; Sorenson and Stuart, 2008) and entrepreneurship is in itself a multidimensional concept …
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A new perspective on the innovator’s dilemma
Berglund, Henrik; Sandström, Christian - Ratioinstitutet - 2014
Abstract: Why do entrant firms sometimes gain the upper hand under conditions of discontinuous technological change? Previous research on this topic has either looked at the role of established competencies and/or firm incentives to invest in a new technology. In this paper we explore an...
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Why Did Self-Employment Increase So Strongly in Germany?
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Sorgner, Alina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015
Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification. Applying the non-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique, we find that the main factors driving these changes in the overall level of self-employment are demographic...
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Virtue as Competence in the Entrepreneurial Society
Karlson, Nils; Fergin, Elina - Ratioinstitutet - 2014
. Moreover, to a certain degree virtues are learnt through the practice of <p> entrepreneurship. Due to their importance, though …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262763