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Innovation and Social Capital: A Cross-country Investigation

Doh, Soogwan; Acs, Zoltan J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This study explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital … that social capital has a positive impact on innovation at the national level. After controlling for R&D expenditure and … human capital there is a positive relationship between social capital and innovation. Social capital interacts with …

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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...

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Evaluating the effect of tax deductions on training

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - EconWPA - 2002

Due to a tax law implemented in 1998, Dutch employers can claim an extra tax deduction when they train employees aged 40 years or older. This causes a discontinuity in a firm's cost of training an employee. We exploit this discontinuity to identify two effects: the effect of the tax deduction on...

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Intellectual Property Rights and the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship

Acs, Zoltan J.; Sanders, Mark - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

generate new knowledge. This has a positive impact on entrepreneurship and innovation. However, after some point, further … innovation. Intellectual property rights protection allows the incumbent firms to capture part of the rents of commercial …

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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship and Foreign Direct Investment

Acs, Zoltan J.; Brooksbank, David J.; O'Gorman, Colm; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 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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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 - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

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 e ect of financial rewards on students achievement: Evidence from a randomized experiment

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Klaauw, Bas van der - EconWPA - 2004

This paper reports about a randomized field experiment in which first year economics and business students at the University of Amsterdam could earn financial rewards for passing the first year requirements within one year. Participants were assigned to a high, low and zero (control) reward...

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The Skill Balancing Act: Determinants of and Returns to Balanced Skills

Bublitz, Elisabeth; Noseleit, Florian - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Entrepreneurs are found to have balanced skill sets and most have worked in small firms before starting their own business. In light of this, we compare the skill sets of employees working in businesses of different size to the skill sets of entrepreneurs using a rich data set on the applied...

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New evidence on the effect of time in school on early achievement

Leuven, Edwin; Lindahl, Mikael; Oosterbeek, Hessel; … - EconWPA - 2004

This study estimates the effect of expanding enrollment possibilities in early eduction on the achievement of young children. To do so it exploits two features of the Dutch schooling system. First, children are allowed to enroll in school on their fourth birthday. Second, children having their...

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The Entrepreneurship-Philanthropy Nexus: Nonmarket Source of American Entrepreneurial Capitalism

Acs, Zoltan J.; Audretsch, David; Phillips, Ronnie J.; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

through knowledge creation. Analyzing philanthropy sheds light on our current understanding of how economic development has …

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