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Growth and Entrepreneurship: An Empirial Assessment

Acs, Zoltan J.; Audretsch, David B.; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2005

knowledge from the source creating it to the firm actually commercializing the new ideas. In this paper, entrepreneurship is … identified as one such mechanism facilitating the spillover of knowledge. Using a panel of entrepreneurship data for 18 countries …

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Identity and Entrepreneurship

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lüdemann, Elke - CESifo - 2009

We incorporate the concept of social identity into a stylized model of occupational choice and analyze whether an individual’s identity affects his or her decision to become an entrepreneur. We argue that an entrepreneurial identity results from an individual’s socialization. This could be...

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Demography and Innovative Entrepreneurship

Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - CESifo - 2007

Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual’s decision to start a business is determined by his...

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The Apple doesn't Fall far from the Tree: Location of Start-Ups Relative to Incumbents

Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - CESifo - 2008

New firm location decisions, relative to incumbents may be based on a choice between two types of advantages: natural advantages or those that arise from social embeddedness, the latter of which may particularly include knowledge spillovers. We analyze the relative importance of geographically...

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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship

Acs, Zoltan J.; Audretsch, David B.; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2005

Contemporary theories of entrepreneurship generally focus on the decision-making context of the individual. The … entrepreneurship literature is that opportunities are exogenous, the most prevalent theory of innovation in the economics literature … suggests that opportunities are endogenous. This paper bridges the gap between the entrepreneurship and economic literature on …

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Entreprenörskap, industriell dynamik och ekonomisk tillväxt

Carlsson, Bo - Ratioinstitutet - 2002

Huvudtesen i denna studie är att innovationer driver den ekonomiska utvecklingen, att innovationer skapas i teknologiska system och omvandlas till ekonomisk verksamhet i kompetensblock, och att industriell dynamik uppstår i konfrontationen mellan utbudssidan (teknologiska system) och...

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School Competition and Students' Entrepreneurial Intentions: International Evidence Using Historical Catholic Roots of Private Schooling

Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2010

School choice research mostly focuses on academic outcomes. Policymakers increasingly view entrepreneurial traits as a non-cognitive outcome important for economic growth. We use international PISA-2006 student-level data to estimate the effect of private-school competition on students’...

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Innovation and entrepreneurship

Audretsch, David B. (contributor); Falck, Oliver (contributor) - 2009

entrepreneurship - with the chapters providing a compelling link between the two. The editors seek to introduce and contextualize some …Edward P. Lazear (2004), 'Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship', American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 94 …. Baumol (1968), 'Entrepreneurship in Economic Theory', American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, LVIII (2), May, 64 …

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