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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190289
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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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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
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011726278
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011728229
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The free-rider problem and the optimal duration of research joint ventures: theory and evidence from the Eureka program
Miyagiwa, Kaz; Sissoko, Aminata - Department of Economics, Florida International University - 2013
analysis shows that there is an optimal termination date or duration, which increases with the value of the innovation per …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010842958
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Globalization, Factor Endowments,and Scale-Invariant Growth
Dinopoulos, Elias; Syropoulos, Constantinos - Department of Economics, Florida International University - 2004
and sequential global innovation contests in which challengers devote resources to R&D and technology leaders undertake …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196777
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VIOLACIÓN A LOS DERECHOS DE PROPIEDAD INTELECTUAL: LA INCIDENCIA DEL INGRESO, LA CULTURA, LA EDUCACIÓN, LAS ORGANIZACIONES, LAS INSTITUCIONES Y LA INNOVACIÓN EN LA PIRATERÍA DE SOF...
Marquez, Pablo - EconWPA - 2005
The target of this paper is to question the causes of software intellectual property rights violation. To solve this question, the author analyses how has evolved the economic literature of IPR violation showing that the traditional market variables do not fulfill the requirements to explain the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126044