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The Relation between Economic Development and Business Ownership revisited
Carree, Martin; Stel, André van; Thurik, Roy; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
This paper revisits the two-equation model of Carree, van Stel, Thurik and Wennekers (2002) where deviations from the ‘equilibrium’ rate of business ownership play a central role determining both the growth of business ownership and that of economic development. Two extensions of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256128
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Business Ownership and Economic Growth in 23 OECD Countries
Carree, Martin; Stel, André van; Thurik, Roy; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000
In the present paper we address the relationship between the extentof business ownership (self-employment) and economic development. We will focusupon three issues. First, how is the equilibrium rate of business ownershiprelated to the stage of economic development? Second, what is the speed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256131
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Entrepreneurship, Economic Growth and Policy in Emerging Economies
Thurik, A.R. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2008
Entrepreneurship has emerged as an important element in the organization of economies. This emergence did not occur … countries embrace entrepreneurial energy. This led to the political mandate to promote entrepreneurship. Hence, a clear and … organized view is needed of what the determinants and consequences of entrepreneurship are. The present contribution tries to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005288702
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Entrepreneurship by Alliance
Krug, B.; Mehta, J. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2001
entrepreneurship with its potential to set the economy on a higher growth path by supplying the products which consumers need and want …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005288830
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What Turns Knowledge into Innovative Products? The Role of Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Spillovers
Block, J.H.; Thurik, A.R.; Zhou, H. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2009
The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship seeks to explain the sources of entrepreneurship and its … that a high rate of entrepreneurship facilitates the process of turning knowledge into innovative products while it has no …. Our results show that a high rate of entrepreneurship increases the chances that knowledge turns into innovative products …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042243
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Impeded Industrial Restructuring: The Growth Penalty
Audretsch, D.B.; Carree, M.A.; Stel, A.J. van; Thurik, A.R. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000
This paper documents that a process of industrial restructuring has been transforming the developed economies, where large corporations are accounting for less economic activity and small firms are accounting for a greatershare of economic activity. Not all countries, however, are experiencing...
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