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The global entrepreneurship index (GEINDEX)
Ács, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
drive innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032006
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864500
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864501
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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship and Foreign Direct Investment
Acs, Zoltán J.; Brooksbank, David J.; O’Gorman, 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864527
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864568
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864991
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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... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865252
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Balanced Skills and the City: An Analysis of the Relationship between Entrepreneurial Skill Balance, Thickness and Innovation
Bublitz, Elisabeth; Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Being a "jack-of-all-trades" increases the probability of running an entrepreneurial venture successfully; but what happens to "jack-of-few-trades" who lack sufficient skills? This paper investigates a possible compensation mechanism between balanced skills and cities, and how this compensatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884449
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Spinoffs and Entrepreneurial Talent
Shrivastava, Mili - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Spinoffs firms are an important source of industry dynamics and innovation. While an emerging body of literature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008483760
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Who values the status of the entrepreneur?
Praag, Mirjam van - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Parker and Van Praag (2009) showed, based on theory, that the group status of the profession 'entrepreneurship' shapes people's occupational preferences and thus their choice behavior. The current study focuses on the determinants and consequences of the group status of a profession,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004984635