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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764790
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Cognitive informatics for revealing human cognition : knowledge manipulations in natural intelligence
Wang, Yingxu (contributor) - 2013
simulation of the cognitive process of children knowledge acquisition and memory development / Jeff Bancroft, Yingxu Wang -- A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011727585
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Handbook of research on maximizing cognitive learning through knowledge visualization
Ursyn, Anna (ed.) - 2015
language (VPCL): visual system and method for teaching and learning programming and problem solving through knowledge … / Pamela G. Taylor -- Bringing the arts as data to visualize how knowledge works / Lihua Xu, Read Diket, Thomas Brewer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011728183
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Knowledge and Structure
Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002
This article presents a formalization of knowledge based on a connectionist model of a firm's structure. Transaction … costs are not ignored, but integrated with the knowledge-based approach. A numerical example on the canonical comparison of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561473
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The Iberian Tigers versus The Celtic Tiger: Economic Growth Paths in an Economic History Perspective
Sequeira, Tiago Neves - EconWPA - 2003
The years following the Second World War were those of the greatest economic growth that Europe had ever seen. If the countries of the Iberian Peninsula, neutral in the conflict and ruled by dictatorial regimes, enjoyed that growth and had participated in the convergence phenomenon, Ireland,...
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Crescimento Econ\363mico no P\363s-guerra: os Casos de Espanha, Portugal e Irlanda
Sequeira, Tiago - EconWPA - 2002
The years following the Second World War were those of the greatest economic growth that Europe had ever seen. If the countries of the Iberian Peninsula, neutral in the conflict and ruled by dictatorial regimes, enjoyed that growth and had participated in the convergence phenomenon, Ireland,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556858
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011727545
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011726106