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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005247890
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Unemployment Benefits Crowd Out Nascent Entrepreneurial Activity
Koellinger, Ph.D.; Minniti, M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2008
Analyzing a cross-country panel of 16 OECD countries from 2002 to 2005, we find that higher unemployment benefits crowd out nascent entrepreneurial activity. Our results hold regardless of entrepreneurial motivation (necessity or opportunity) and entrepreneurial type (imitative or innovative).
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005288468
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I Can’t Get No Satisfaction - Necessity Entrepreneurship and Procedural Utility
Block, J.H.; Koellinger, Ph.D. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2008
We study a unique sample of 1,547 nascent entrepreneurs in Germany and analyze which factors are associated with their start-up satisfaction. Our results identify a group of nascent entrepreneurs that “cannot get satisfaction†with their start-up because they did not choose to become...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005288472
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Why Are Some Entrepreneurs More Innovative Than Others?
Koellinger, Ph.D. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2007
The study provides theoretical insights and empirical evidence on the emergence of different types and degrees of entrepreneurial innovativeness. The results suggest that entrepreneurial innovativeness depends both on individual factors and on the environment in which the individual lives. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005288852
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005588033
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005642431
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Genome-wide Association Studies and the Genetics of Entrepreneurship
Loos, M.J.H.M. van der; Koellinger, Ph.D.; Groenen, P.J.F. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2010
We are currently investigating genetic influences on self-employment in an international research consortium using genome-wide association studies (GWAS). By meta-analysing results from numerous independent samples we address identification issues arising from multiple testing. To our knowledge,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008484100