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This study provides evidence of the contribution of entrepreneurship to economic development in Appalachia. Using data … entrepreneurship on economic growth and development. We present an expanded Carlino-Mills growth model using changes in population … entrepreneurship’s contributions to economic growth, and its potential as a development strategy for a region, such as Appalachia, that …
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Despite their worldwide adoption by policy makers as the Holy Grail for entrepreneurship and business development, the …
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The geography of business incubators has seldom been examined against the public aspirations and beliefs that incubators should either inhabit economically distressed areas to alleviate unemployment and poverty (in the case of empowerment business incubators) or proliferate in technologically...
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Entrepreneurship variables constructed from county-level proprietorship and firm birth data were included in an … endogenous growth model to determine the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth in West Virginia. The …. However, none of the entrepreneurship variables used in the study is statistically significant in determining per capita …
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This paper examines the influence of private property rights and monies on entrepreneurial discovery. A framework is presented and tested, which views these two institutions as key determinants of entrepreneurial discovery. Using several measures as proxies for their influence, two variables,...
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. Moreover, to a certain degree virtues are learnt through the practice of <p> entrepreneurship. Due to their importance, though …
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This paper provides new evidence on the determinants of entrepreneurship across countries. The paper investigates the … relationship between the institutional setting, in terms of economic freedom, and entrepreneurship, as measured by self … to increase entrepreneurship. <p …
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Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest in recent years, with self-employment being … used as the most common proxy for “entrepreneurship” in empirical studies. However, there are various ways of defining …
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In this paper I assert that the entrepreneurial spirit can also exist in salaried jobs. I study the determinants of wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany - self-employed and salaried businesswomen - and investigate whether ethnicity is important in...
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The influence of risk aversion on the decision to become self-employed is a much discussed topic in the entrepreneurial literature. Conventional wisdom asserts that the role model of an entrepreneur requires to make risky decisions in uncertain environments and hence that more risk-averse...
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