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Entrepreneurship Dynamics: Entry Routes, Business-Owner's Persistence and Exit Modes

Rocha, Vera; Carneiro, Anabela; Varum, Celeste Amorim - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2013

This paper conducts a comprehensive study on entrepreneurship dynamics using a large longitudinal matched employer-employee dataset. We identify the transition of over 200,000 nascent business-owners and follow their survival patterns in the respective businesses using discrete time competing...

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Necessity and Opportunity Entrepreneurs through the Business Cycle

Thompson, Peter - Department of Economics, Florida International University - 2011

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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Entrepreneurs: Jacks of all Trades or Hobos?

Astebro, Thomas; Thompson, Peter - Department of Economics, Florida International University - 2007

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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A consumption-based measure of the monetary rewards to entrepreneurship

Krichevskiy, Dmitriy - Department of Economics, Florida International University - 2010

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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Unbounding entrepreneurial intents of university students: a multidisciplinary perspective

Teixeira, Aurora A.C.; Forte, Rosa Portela - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2009

Entrepreneurial activities are seen as key drivers of innovation, job creation, and economic growth. Recent efforts are …

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Academic entrepreneurship and technological innovation : a business management perspective

Karwowski, Waldemar (contributor); … - 2013

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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Entrepreneurship and innovations in e-business : an integrative perspective

Zhao, Fang (contributor) - 2006

"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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Information technology entrepreneurship and innovation

Zhao, Fang - 2008

understanding of knowledge dynamics of innovation in business networks / Alexandra Steinburg -- … : an Islamic perspective / Muhammad Mohtsham Saeed -- 16. Supporting innovation through knowledge management in the …"This book presents current studies on the nature, process and practice of entrepreneurship and innovation in the …

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Handbook of research on global competitive advantage through innovation and entrepreneurship

Lawton Smith, Helen (ed.); Ferreira, João J. M. (ed.); … - 2015

-- Knowledge, technology, and innovation -- Entrepreneurship and internationalization -- Entrepreneurial strategy and value …Global competitive advantage -- Regional innovation systems and competitiveness -- Competitiveness and clusters …

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Growth challenges for the business services industry - international comparison and policy issues

Kox, Henk L.M. - EconWPA - 2003

national innovation systems. The study also analyses the factors behind this industry's poor productivity growth. A scenario …

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