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We construct a simple model of occupational choice among agents with differing abilities. The fraction of agents creating new businesses who are low ability rises during recessions. Thus, cohorts born during recessions are on average lower quality: their businesses yield lower initial earnings,...
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Human capital investment theory suggests that entrepreneurs should be generalists, while those who work for others should be specialists; it also predicts higher incomes for entrepreneurs with generalist skills. An alternative view predicts that those with greater taste for variety are more...
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Recent findings by Hamilton (Journal of Political Economy, 2000) suggest that the self-employed do not receive a monetary premium for the risk and uncertainty associated with business ownership. In this paper, I show that that income underreporting by entrepreneurs can explain the lack of...
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In the only known programme of prescriptive entrepreneurship, James Fiet provides a marked contrast to the standard descriptive focus of entrepreneurship studies. Instead of the anecdotally based pedagogies that have dominated the teaching of entrepreneurship (and which do not control for...
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-- pt. IV. Business exits -- pt. V. Knowledge-based entrepreneurship -- pt. VI. Entrepreneurship and social inclusion …
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difficult. This book attempts to provide a deeper understanding of the interaction between investment, knowledge spillovers and … empirical evidence regarding the spatial dimension of investment, entrepreneurship and knowledge spillovers, and features both …, innovation, economic growth, economic integration and regional development will find this book to be of great interest. It will …
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1. Introduction / David Smallbone, Markku Virtanen and Arnis Sauka -- Part I innovation -- 2. Innovation processes in …Entrepreneurship and innovation are arguably the main drivers of economic development today. This book explores the two … established EU member states. Split into three parts, the book focuses on: innovation, entrepreneurial activity and regional …
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1. Innovation, entrepreneurship and culture, a matter of interaction between technology, progress and economic growth …? : an introduction -- 2. Conceptualizing innovation management and culture in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region … (HKSAR) : an exploratory study of organization-specific critical success factors -- 3. Knowledge management, institutions and …
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India / Neeta Baporikar -- Introducing a science-to-business marketing unit to university knowledge and technology transfer … to academic entrepreneurship / Roman Batko -- Cultivating entrepreneurial thinking through a management of innovation and … technology course: evidence from the University of Nicosia / Despo Ktoridou -- Regional innovation system in Lower Silesia: key …
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"The book presents a comprehensive introduction of the concepts and practices of e-entrepreneurship and e-innovation …1. Entrepreneurship and innovation in e-business : an integrative perspective / Fang Zhao -- 2. Exploring rhizomic … becomings in post dot-com crash networks : a Deleuzian approach to emergent knowledge dynamics / Alexandra Steinberg -- 3 …
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