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When to Start a New Firm?: Modelling the Timing of Novice and Serial Entrepreneurs

Gries, Thomas; Naude, Wim - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009

The success of new start-up firms often depends on timing. It is valuable for the potential entrepreneur to wait for the right moment before starting a new firm. In this paper we provide a theoretical model to determine the optimal time for starting a new firm. We integrate insights from the...

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Early International Entrepreneurship in China: Extent and Determinants

Naude, Wim; Rossouw, Stephanie - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009

investigate early international entrepreneurship (international new ventures) in China. The extent of early international … entrepreneurship in China is significant: 65 per cent of the exporting firms start export operations within three years. Foreign …

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Entrepreneurship, Development, and the Spatial Context Retrospect and Prospect

Nijkamp, Peter - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009

Entrepreneurship has been a topical issue in the business administration literature, but in the past decade a wave of … interest can be observed on the role of entrepreneurship in the economic growth literature. This paper aims to highlight the … various contributions to the entrepreneurship literature from the perspective of regional economic development. After a broad …

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Entrepreneurship and Structural Economic Transformation

Gries, Thomas; Naude, Wim - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2008

-driven entrepreneurship in the modern sector. The model shows how opportunity-driven entrepreneurship can drive structural transformation …

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Entrepreneurship and Regional Economic Growth: Towards A General Theory of Start-Ups

Gries, Thomas; Naude, Wim - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2008

Start-ups of new firms are important for economic growth. However, start-up rates differ significantly between countries and within regions of the same country. A large empirical literature studies the reasons for this and attempts to identify the regional determinants of start-ups. In contrast,...

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International Mobility of Engineers and the Rise of Entrepreneurship in the Periphery

Saxenian, AnnaLee - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2006

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The Development of Small Entrepreneurship in Russia

Radaev, Vadim - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2001

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