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The impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship competencies and intentions: An evaluation of the Junior Achievement Student Mini-Company Program

Oosterbeek, Hessel; Praag, Mirjam van; IJsselstein, Auke - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

Both the European Community, its member countries and the United States have stimulated schools to implement entrepreneurship programs into schooling curricula on a large scale, based on the idea that entrepreneurial competencies and mindsets must be developed at school. The leading and...

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The Geography and Determinantsof Entrepreneurship

Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2008

Entrepreneurship literature (Parker 2004) has rarely considered spatial locationas a micro-determinant of occupational choice, although there are compellingreasons to posit that spatial location influences economic behavior. Using Bayesiansemiparametric methodologies and geoadditive techniques,...

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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship and Foreign Direct Investment

Acs, Zoltán J.; Brooksbank, David J.; OGorman, Colm; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

We explore if the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship, applied to FDI, provides at least a partial … explanation for the greater emergence of recent knowledge-based entrepreneurship in Ireland compared with Wales. In order to … examine how FDI and entrepreneurship policy in these two regions might have influenced the levels of knowledge …

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Serial Entrepreneurship: Differentiating Direct from Latent Re-entrants

Amaral, A. Miguel; Baptista, Rui - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

This study is the first to examine the decision to re-enter business ownership by entrepreneurs who have exited their first business using a longitudinal matched employer-employee database. This kind of data allow us to distinguish between those serial entrepreneurs who re-enter business...

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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship

Acs, Zoltán J.; Audretsch, David B.; Braunerhjelm, Pontus - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

entrepreneurship literature is that opportunities are exogenous, the most prevalent theory of innovation in the economics literature …

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The Impact of Geographic Differences inHuman Capital on Service Firm Formation Rates

Acs, Zoltán J.; Armington, Catherine - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004

important mechanism is the spillover of relevant knowledge... …

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Reputation Capital, Financial Capital, and Transition to Entrepreneurship

Loss, Frédéric; Renucci, Antoine - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2008

We provide a theory for career choices of employees willing to become entrepreneurs and facing credit constraints. We show that they need a sufficient mix of reputation and financial capital. We consider their choice to work for transparent or opaque firms. Transparent firms disclose more...

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Intergenerational Transmission of Self-Employed Status in the Informal Sector: A Constrained Choice or Better Income Prospects? Evidence from seven West-African Countries

Pasquier-Doumer, Laure - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013

This paper aims at highlighting the debate on firm heterogeneity in the informal sector by testing whether entrepreneurial familial background impacts informal businesses outcomes in the West African context. In the USA, a literature aiming at understanding the high intergenerational correlation...

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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 …

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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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